1 Chronicles 6:60; 1 Kings 2:26; Isaiah 10:30; Jeremiah 1:1
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...
Anathoth. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Anathoth".
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities. Anathoth - Celebrated as the birthplace of Jeremiah, about three miles northward...
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...
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...
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...
Anathoth with her suburbs ,.... This is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, Joshua 18:11 ; it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah,...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘ And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs. Four cit...
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
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs, Joshua 18:24-25 ; 1 Chronicles 6:60 : four cities.
18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almonf with her suburbs; four cities.