Joshua 21:17

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her (f) suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, (f) The suburbs were a thousand cubits from the wall of the ci...
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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
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.
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...
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...
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 distri...
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 disco...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs ,.... See Gill "Jos 18:25"; from which came the Gibeonites. Geba with her suburbs. Of w...
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...
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 ment...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ 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...
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...
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 w...
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...
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 s...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Cities of the Priests
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, a fact which tended to curb any idolatrous notions of its heathen inhabitants, Joshua 9,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 6:60 ; Joshua 18:24 ; Joshua 18:25 ; Joshua 9:3

¹⁷ And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Gebae with her suburbs,

Related Commentaries of Joshua 21:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 21:17