Joshua 21:41

Hashem gave unto Yisroel Kol HaAretz which He swore to give unto their Avot; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

In Context

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

42And Hashem gave them manoach (rest, peace) on every side, according to all that He swore unto their Avot; and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; Hashem delivered all their enemies into their yad.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Arur (cursed) be their anger, for it was fierce; 1 and their wrath, for it was cruel; 1 I will dispense them in Ya'akov, 1 and scatter them in Yisroel. 1

Numbers 35:7So all the arim (towns) which ye shall give to the Levi'im shall be 48 ir: them shall ye give with their migrashim (open pasturelands).

Joshua 21:3And the Bnei Yisroel gave unto the Levi'im out of their nachalah, at the commandment of Hashem, these towns and their migrashim.

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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