Joshua 21:27

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:27

And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites ,.... The descendants of the second son of Levi: out of the other half tribe of Manasseh ; that which was settled beyond Jordan: they gave Golan in Bashan, with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer ; see Joshua 20:8 ; this is the third city of refuge mentioned: and Beeshterah with her suburbs ; called Ashtaroth, 1 Chronicles 6:71 ; which had been the royal city of Og, king of Bashan, where he... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 21:27

Golan in Bashan - On this and the other cities of refuge mentioned here, see the note on Joshua 20:7 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 21:1-45

The ecclesiastical settlement of Canaan. Though the ecclesiastical institutions of the Christian Church differ, in some respects materially, from these of the Jewish, yet inasmuch as the law and the gospel came from the same All-wise Hand, we may naturally expect that the main principles of each will be the same. Perhaps we have insisted too much of late on the fact that the law was "done away in Christ," and too little on the qualifying truth that Christ came "not to destroy, but to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 21:27

To be a city of refuge (see above, Joshua 21:13 ). Be-eshterah. Thus printed by the Masorites, and thus translated by the LXX ; but no doubt the same as Og's city Ashtaroth (see Joshua 12:4 , and 1 Chronicles 6:71 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 21:27-33

Compare Joshua 19:18, etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah (“house of Ashterah”) and the city is undoubtedly the Ashtaroth or Astaroth of Og Joshua 12:4; Deu 1:4; 1 Chronicles 6:71. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:1-45

Cities for the Levites (20:1-21:45)The Levites were given forty-eight cities throughout Israel, along with surrounding pasture lands for their cattle (see 21:41-42; Numbers 35:1-8). Among these cities were six cities of refuge (Numbers 35:6). These were cities where a person who had killed another could flee for safety until he had been lawfully judged (Exodus 21:12-14). If he was found guilty of murder he was to be executed, but if he was found to have caused the death accidentally, he could... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joshua 21:27

CITIES OF THE GERSHONITES"And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its suburbs; two cities. And out of the tribe of Isaachar, Kishion with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four cities. And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs, Helkath with... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joshua 21:1-42

2. The cities of the Levites 21:1-42The tribes also had to set aside 42 additional cities for the priests and Levites to inhabit (cf. Numbers 35:1-8). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joshua 21:27-33

The Gershonites’ towns 21:27-33The Gershonites occupied 13 towns: two in eastern Manasseh (Joshua 21:27), four in Issachar (Joshua 21:28-29), four in Asher (Joshua 21:30-31), and three in Naphtali (Joshua 21:32). read more

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