24Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
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Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:
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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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