And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-she'mesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Ain. The true reading is obviously Ashan, as in 1 Chronicles 6:59. It was overruled by the unerring providence of the Divine Law-giver that the cities of the priests lay within the territories of Judah and Benjamin; and this was a provision the admirable wisdom and propriety of which was fully manifested on the schism that took place in the reign of Rehoboam.