Joshua 21:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

Joshua 21:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 6:59
And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:
Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
Joshua 15:10
And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
1 Samuel 6:12
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
Joshua 15:42
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

Topics

Ain Ashan Beth-Shemesh Dress Government High Priest Juttah Officer

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

9-40. they gave ... these cities which are here mentioned by name--It was overruled by the unerring providence of the Divine Lawgiver that the cities of the priests lay within the territories of Judah and Benjamin. This was a provision, the admirable wisdom and propriety of which were fully manifested on the schism that took place in the reign of Rehoboam.