Joshua 21:41

All the cities of the Levites, in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel, were forty-eight cities, with their pasture lands:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

In Context

40All the cities for the sons of Merari, by their families, who remained of the families of the Levites, yea their lot was, twelve, cities.

42these cities passed, each severally, with its pasture lands round about it; thus, was it with all these cities.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:7Accursed, be their anger, because fierce, And their wrath because cruel,—I divide them in Jacob, And I disperse them in Israel.

Numbers 35:7All the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be forty-eight cities,—them, and their pasture lands,

Joshua 21:3So the sons of Israel gave unto the Levites, out of their own inheritance, at the bidding of Yahweh,—these cities, with their pasture-lands.

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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