13Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,
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Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. …
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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