Joshua 21:41
So altogether 48 cities were allotted to the tribe of Levi,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
40Altogether twelve cities were allotted to the Merari clans.
42and each city had surrounding pastureland.
Cross References
Genesis 49:7God says, ‘I will ◄curse/cause bad things to happen to► them for being very angry, for acting very cruelly when they were very furious. I will scatter their descendants [MTY] throughout Israel land.’
Numbers 35:7You must also give to the descendants of Levi 42 other cities and the land around those cities, for their animals,.
Joshua 21:3So the Israeli leaders obeyed this command from Yahweh. They agreed to give towns and pasturelands to the tribe of Levi.
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 →