64And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs. …
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, …
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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