Joshua 21:40

So all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families (which were the rest of the families of the Leuites) were by their lot, twelue cities.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

In Context

39Heshbon with her suburbs, and Iazer with her suburbes: foure cities in all.

41And all the cities of the Leuites within the possession of the children of Israel, were eight and fourtie with their suburbes.

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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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