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12But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Joshua 21:12

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. …

  • And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-42)

We have here a particular account of the cities which were given to the children of Levi out of the several tribes, not only to be occupied and inhabited by them, as tenants to the several tribes in which they lay—no, their interest in them was not dependent and precarious, but to be owned and possessed by them as lords and proprietors, and as having the same title to them that the rest of the tri…

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