60And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 54-81)We have here an account of the Levites’ cities. They are here called their castles (1 Chron. 6:54), not only because walled and fortified, and well guarded by the country (for it is the interest of every nation to protect its ministers), but because they and their possessions were, in a particular manner, the care of the divine providence: as God was their portion, so God was their protection; and…
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