Joshua 21:39

All the towns of the Levi'im within the achuzzat Bnei Yisroel (possession, estate of the Sons of Israel) were 48 towns with their migrashim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.

In Context

38So all the towns for the Bnei Merari by their mishpekhot, which were remaining of the mishpekhot Levi'im, were by their goral 12 towns.

40These towns were every one with their migrash around them; thus were all these towns.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:26For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon Melech HaEmori, who had fought against the former king of Moav, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

Numbers 32:3Atarot, and Divon, and Yazer, and Nimrah, and Cheshbon, and Elealeh, and Sevam, and Nevo, and Be'on,

Numbers 32:37And the Bnei Reuven built Cheshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiryatayim,

Joshua 13:21And all the towns of the plain, and kol mamlechot Shichon Melech HaEmori, who reigned in Cheshbon, whom Moshe conquered with the nasiim of Midyan, Evi, and Rekem, and Tzur, and Chur, and Reva, which were vassal princes under Sichon, dwelling in HaAretz.

1 Chronicles 26:31Among the Chevroni was Yeriyah the rosh, even among the Chevroni, according to the toldot of his avot. In the fortieth year of the reign of Dovid they were sought, and there were found among them gibborei chayil at Yazer of Gil'ad.

Jeremiah 48:32O gefen (vine) of Sivmah, 1 I will weep for thee with the weeping of Yazer; 1 thy branches are spread over the yam, 1 they reach even to the yam Yazer; 1 the plunderer is fallen upon 1 thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. 1

Matthew Henry on Joshua 21:10-43

9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name, 10 Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot. 11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it. 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to… Read the whole commentary →

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