Joshua 21:19
Altogether those 13 towns and surrounding pastureland were allotted to the priests who were descended from Aaron.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
In Context
18Anathoth, and Almon. Those cities were in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Benjamin.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 6:57The descendants of Aaron who were descendants of Kohath were allotted Hebron, one of the cities to which people could flee and be protected if they accidentally killed someone. They also were allotted the towns and pastureland near Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa,
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 →