Joshua 21:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs, ”

• Joshua 21:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare Joshua 19:18 , etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah (“house of Ashterah”) and the city is undoubtedly the As...

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• Joshua 21:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 21:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,

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• Joshua 21:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Joshua 21:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 21:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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 (...

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• Joshua 21:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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....

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• Joshua 21:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 21:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs ,.... From whence the river Kishon probably had its name, or the city from that; it is the same with Kishion, Joshua 19:20 ; and called Ked...

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• Joshua 21:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 21:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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,...

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• Joshua 21:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Joshua 21:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs, Jarmuth with her suburbs, En-gannim with her suburbs. Four cities.' For Kishion see Joshua 19:20 , for Da...

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• Joshua 21:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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,...

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• Joshua 21:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Joshua 21:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Joshua 21:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 21:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Cities of the Kohathites, the Gershonites, and the Merabites

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• Joshua 21:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 6:72 ; 1 Chronicles 6:73 ; Joshua 19:12

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