Joshua 21:19

17 and from the tribe of Benjamin, ^aGibeon with its common-land, ^bGeba with its common-land,

18 Anathoth with its common-land, and ^aAlmon with its common-land: four cities.

19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their common-lands.

20 ^aAnd the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, the rest of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their¹ lot from the tribe of Ephraim.

21 For they gave them ^aShechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^bGezer with its common-land,

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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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.

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