John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:23
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs ,.... See Gill on Joshua 19:44 , Gibbethon with her suburbs ; see Gill on Joshua 19:44 . read more
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John Gill
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 21:24
Aijalon with her suburbs ,.... See Gill on Joshua 19:42 , Gathrimmon with her suburbs, four cities ; See Gill on Joshua 19:45 . read more
John Gill
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
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 21:24
Aijalon - See on Joshua 10:12 ; (note). 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 21:25
Tanach . The same as the Taanach before mentioned, Joshua 12:21 . In 1 Chronicles 6:70 (56 Hebrews text) we have Eth-aner, an obvious blunder, as the Hebrew shows, Resh having been read for Hheth, and Aleph having been inserted to form the Eth of the accusative ease. This reading existed, however, as far back as the LXX . version. Gath-rimmon. There is a blunder also here, where Gath-rimmon has crept in by the mistake of a copyist from the last verse. The true reading is preserved in... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 21:20-26
Of the cities of the non-priestly Kohathites, for Kibzaim we find Jokmeam in 1 Chronicles 6:68. This is perhaps another name for the same place, since both names may be derived from roots having a similar meaning; and for Gath-rimmon in 1 Chronicles 6:70, Bileam is given, and probably correctly; Gath-rimmon having apparently been repeated inadvertently from the preceding verse. Bileam is but another form of Ibleam Joshua 17:11. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 21:25
Joshua 21:25. Half the tribe Namely, that half which dwelt in Canaan. 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
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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