1 Chronicles 6:55-57; Joshua 14:13-15
The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so o...
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...
Caleb. Compare Joshua 14:14 ; 1 Chronicles 6:56 .
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. The fields of the city - gave they...
Ver. 10-18. Which the Kohathites had; for their's was the first lot — Thus the Levite priests had for their part, as well in Simeon as in Judah...
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. No J...
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...
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...
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 distri...
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 disco...
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof ,.... Which lay beyond the two thousand cubits: gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh, for...
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. Ver. 12. Gave they to Caleb. ] W...
The fields and villages That is, all beyond the two thousand cubits expressed Numbers 35:5 . This is here mentioned, not as his peculiar case, but...
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...
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 ment...
The fields of the city, i.e. all beyond the 2000 cubits expressed Numbers 35:5 . This is here mentioned, not as his peculiar case, but as one em...
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...
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 w...
Unto the Levites . .. these cities. Ministers liberally treated The liberality both of God and of His people to the ministers of God is here...
EXPOSITION THE INHERITANCE OF THE LEVITES . Joshua 21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites. We are not to s...
The Cities of the Priests
But the fields of the city, the farm-land, and the villages thereof, the towns tributary to it, gave they to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his...
The fields and villages — That is, all beyond the two thousand cubits expressed, Numbers 35:5 . This is here mentioned, not as his peculiar case,...
12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.