Joshua 21:20

The other members the Kohath clan were allotted four cities and the surrounding pastureland in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Ephraim.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

In Context

19Altogether those 13 towns and surrounding pastureland were allotted to the priests who were descended from Aaron.

21Those cities were Shechem (which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected), Gezer,

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:51Abishua’s son was Bukki. Bukki’s son was Uzzi. Uzzi’s son was Zerahiah.

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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