John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:25
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with her suburbs ,.... Of which see Joshua 17:10 , and Gathrimmon with her suburbs , there was a city of this name in Dan, as in Joshua 21:24 ; nor was it unusual for cities to be called by the same name in different tribes: two cities ; these are called Aner and Bilean in 1 Chronicles 6:70 ; in process of time cities changed their names; two cities were a proper proportion for this half tribe; two more were given out of the other... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 21:9-42
We have here a particular account of the cities which were given to the children of Levi out of the several tribes, not only to be occupied and inhabited by them, as tenants to the several tribes in which they lay?no, their interest in them was not dependent and precarious, but to be owned and possessed by them as lords and proprietors, and as having the same title to them that the rest of the tribes had to their cities or lands, as appears by the law which preserved the house in the Levites?... read more