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Matthew Henry

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 21:13

Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest ,.... The families of the Kohathites, that part of them which descended from him, and were priests: Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer ; that had slain a person unawares, and without design; see on Joshua 20:3 , and Libnah with her suburbs ; a royal city, of which see Joshua 10:29 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:14

And Jattir with her suburbs ,.... See Gill on Joshua 15:48 , and Eshtemoa with her suburbs ; See Gill on Joshua 15:50 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:15

And Holon with her suburbs ,.... See Gill on Joshua 15:51 , and Debir with her suburbs ; See Gill on Joshua 15:49 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:16

And Ain with her suburbs ,.... See Gill on Joshua 15:32 , and Juttah with her suburbs ; See Gill on Joshua 15:55 , and Bethshemesh with her suburbs ; which is not mentioned among the cities of Judah, Joshua 15:21 ; only as in the borders of it, Joshua 21:10 ; and perhaps is the same Bethshemesh to which the ark was directed by the Philistines from Ashdod, 1 Samuel 6:9 ; in it formerly was a temple dedicated to the sun, from whence it had its name: nine cities out of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:17

And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs ,.... See Gill on Joshua 18:25 ; from which came the Gibeonites. Geba with her suburbs. Of which See Gill on Joshua 18:24 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:18

Anathoth with her suburbs ,.... This is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, Joshua 18:11 ; it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah; see Gill on Jeremiah 1:1 ; it lay about two or three miles north of Jerusalem; three, says, Jerom F11 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H. . Rauwolff F12 Travels, par. 3. c. 2. p. 216. speaks of it as a small village, when he travelled into those parts, and as lying on a height or eminence, and which was within twenty furlongs of Jerusalem,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:19

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests ,.... Those of the Kohathites that came from him: were thirteen cities with their suburbs ; and just so many are mentioned by name in Joshua 21:11 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 21:18

Anathoth - Celebrated as the birthplace of Jeremiah, about three miles northward of Jerusalem, according to St. Jerome. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 21:19

Thirteen cities with their suburbs - At the time mentioned here certainly thirteen cities were too large a proportion for the priests, as they and their families amounted to a very small number: but this ample provision was made in reference to their great increase in after times, when they formed twenty-four courses, as in the days of David. read more

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