17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
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And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages: …
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
And 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.
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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