Joshua 21:17

The Kohath clan was also allotted these four cities: Gibeon, Geba,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,

In Context

16Ain, Juttah, and Beth-Shemesh. Altogether they were allotted those nine cities which were located in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Judah and Simeon.

18Anathoth, and Almon. Those cities were in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Benjamin.

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Cross References

Joshua 9:3When the people who lived in Gibeon city heard that Joshua’s army had defeated the people of Jericho and Ai,

1 Chronicles 6:60They were also allotted Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth cities from the tribe of Benjamin. Altogether, these clans descended from Kohath were allotted 13 towns.

Nehemiah 12:29and from three places northeast of Jerusalem—Beth Gilgal city and the areas around Geba and Azmaveth. Those singers had built villages to live in near Jerusalem.

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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