Joshua 21:41; Joshua 21:42; Numbers 35:2-5
The writer evidently had before him Joshua 21 , which he followed, as to its matter, closely. In some cases he perhaps modernised the ancient name...
PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). Genealogical Lists, together with Geographical and Historical Notes. These Chapter s form a general introduction to th...
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tri...
Genealogies (continued) This chapter records the descendants of Levi, traces the line of the high priests to the captivity, and enumerates the cit...
(54-81) The Levitical cities, beginning with those of the Aavonites, the principal branch of the Kohathite clan. This list deals with the same topic...
“So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their pastures. And they gave by the lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of...
In this whole chapter, consisting of eighty-one verses, the one subject is the priestly tribe. This in itself reveals the standard from which the his...
The sacred Scripture, having given a faithful register of the Levites names, in those verses relates their dwelling-places. Jacob, when dying, foreto...
1 Chronicles 6:54 .
The Cities of the Levites. B. C. 1444. ...
To the Levites, i.e. to the tribe of Levi, consisting of priests and other Levites. These cities, which are numbered or named in this chapter.
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter refers wholly to tribe of Levi. Gives the family of Aaron, 1 Chronicles 6:1-15 ; the descendants of Gershom, Kohath, a...
1 Chronicles 6:4 . Eleazar begat Phinehas. A correct table of the Jewish highpriests would be very desirable to every lover of sacred literature....
EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 6:1-13 The tribe of Levi is now taken. The first three verses prepare the way for running rapidly down the line of...
The Cities of the Levites
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites, both the priests and the three families into which they were divided, these cities with their suburb...
64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.