18Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
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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