Joshua 21:42
After this verse, the Septuagint introduces a passage (in part a repetition from Joshua 19:49-50 ), recording the grant of a special inheritance t...
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...
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
Ver. 41, 42. All the cities of the Levites—were forty and eight—with their suburbs — Here we are to observe, 1. That Moses could never have assi...
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
These cities were everyone with their suburbs round about them ,.... Which reached to the space of two thousand cubits on every side; and such a spa...
These cities were every one with their suburbs Namely, two thousand cubits on every side round each city, as was ordered, Numbers 35:5 ; and it ce...
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.
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 Kohathites, the Gershonites, and the Merabites
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them, the meadow-land was distinctly included for the perpetual use of the Levites; thus...
42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.