Joshua 21:12

Joshua 21:12

10 which were for the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for the lot was theirs first.

11 ^aAnd they gave them¹ Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of ^bAnak), ^cwhich is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it.

12 But ^athe fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

13 Thus ^ato the children of Aaron the priest they gave ^bHebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^cLibnah with its common-land,

14 ^aJattir with its common-land, ^bEshtemoa with its common-land,

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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The fields and villages - That is, all beyond the two thousand cubits expressed, Numbers 35:5. This is here mentioned, not as his peculiar case, but as one eminent instance, to shew, that it was so in all the rest of the cities here named; that the fields and villages thereof still belonged to the several tribes from whom the cities and their suburbs were taken; and to make the rest of the Israelites more chearfully resign part of their possessions to the Levites, because even Caleb did so, though his possession had been long before promised, and now actually given to him by God's special command, as a mark of honour and compensation for his long and faithful service.

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