Joshua 21:42

Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities.

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These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.

In Context

41All the cities of the Levites amongst the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

43So the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.

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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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