“ Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities. ”
Of the cities of the non-priestly Kohathites, for Kibzaim we find Jokmeam in 1 Chronicles 6:68 . This is perhaps another name for the same place, since both names may be derived from roots having...
The Levitical Cities. The cities promised by Moses to the Levites are here assigned to them. The sons of Aaron have 13 in Judah, the Levites 10 in Ephraim and Manasseh, 13 in Galilee, and 12 in the...
Aijalon. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Aijalon".
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities. Aijalon - See on Joshua 10:12 (note).
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Assignment of Forty-eight Cities to the Levites 2. The injunction to Moses was given in the plains of Moab, and is recorded in Numbers 35:2-5 . 3-8. Number and localities of the cities dis...
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE INHERITANCE OF THE LEVITES. Joshua 21:1-42 . ONCE and again we have found reference made to the fact that Levites received no territorial inheritance among their brethren (...
Jacob's prophecy concerning Simeon and Levi: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel, was fulfilled in the case of Levi in the distribution of the tribe through all the other tribes....
I include all these verses in one point of view for the sake of shortness. If the Reader be desirous to look at them more particularly, he will discover how admirably they were all arranged and dispo...
Aijalon with her suburbs ,.... Joshua 19:42 ; Gathrimmon with her suburbs, four cities ; Joshua 19:45 .
CITIES GIVEN TO THE LEVITES (vs.1-42) Since the Levites were not given a tribal inheritance as were the other tribes, it was necessary that they should have cities among all the tribes Their repr...
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,...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘ And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs, Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath-rimmon with her suburbs. Four cities.' For Eltekeh see Joshua 19:44 , for Gibb...
THE CITIES FOR THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 21:1 . The heads of the fathers] On this phrase, cf. note on chap. Joshua 14:1 . The fathers of the tribe of Levi were Gershon,...
Joshua 21:2 . Suburbs for our cattle. The levites sharing the tithe of corn, only needed cattle, which were tithed as well as the corn; but they were either burnt on the altar, or consumed in feas...
Unto the Levites . .. these cities. Ministers liberally treated The liberality both of God and of His people to the ministers of God is here very marvellous, in giving forty-eight cities to...
EXPOSITION THE INHERITANCE OF THE LEVITES . Joshua 21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites. We are not to suppose, with Calvin, that the Levites had been ove...
The Cities of the Kohathites, the Gershonites, and the Merabites
1 Chronicles 6:69 ; Joshua 10:12 ; Joshua 19:42