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 those two tribes ; and they seem all but one, which is Ain, to be of the tribe of Judah, and that originally belonged to it; and as that tribe had the largest number of cities in its lot, the more were given out of it to the Levites, according to a rule prescribed, Numbers 35:8 .