Joshua 21
The Cities of the
Levites |
1 Chr. 6.54-81 |
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Then came near the heads of the fathers
of the Levites unto Ele-a'zar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of
Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children
of Israel;
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and they spake unto them at Shiloh in the
land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by
the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs
thereof for our cattle. Num. 35.1-8
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And the children of Israel gave unto the
Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
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And the lot came out for the families
of the Ko'hathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which
were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and
out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin,
thirteen cities.
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And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of E'phra-im, and
out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manas'seh, ten
cities.
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And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Is'sachar, and out of the
tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naph'tali, and out of the
half tribe of Manas'seh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
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The children of Mera'ri by their
families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe
of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zeb'ulun, twelve cities.
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And the children of Israel gave by lot
unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
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And they gave out of the tribe of the
children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon,
these cities which are here mentioned by name,
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which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Ko'hathites, who were of the children
of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.
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And they gave them the city of Arba the
father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about
it.
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But the fields of the city, and the
villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh for his
possession.
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Thus 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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and Jattir with her suburbs, and
Eshtemo'a with her suburbs,
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and Holon with her suburbs, and Debir
with her suburbs,
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and A'in with her suburbs, and Juttah
with her suburbs, and Beth-she'mesh with her suburbs; nine
cities out of those two tribes.
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And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon
with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
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An'athoth with her suburbs, and Almon
with her suburbs; four cities.
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All the cities of the children of Aaron,
the priests, were thirteen cities with their
suburbs.
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And the families of the children of
Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even
they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of
E'phra-im.
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For they gave them Shechem with her
suburbs in mount E'phra-im, to be a city of refuge for the
slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
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and Kibza'im with her suburbs, and
Beth-ho'ron with her suburbs; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of Dan, Elte'keh
with her suburbs, Gib'bethon with her suburbs,
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Ai'jalon with her suburbs, Gath-rim'mon
with her suburbs; four cities.
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And out of the half tribe of Manas'seh,
Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rim'mon with her suburbs; two
cities.
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All the cities were ten with their
suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that
remained.
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And unto the children of Gershon, of
the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of
Manas'seh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to
be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Be-esh'terah with her
suburbs; two cities.
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And out of the tribe of Is'sachar, Kishon
with her suburbs, Dab'areh with her suburbs,
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Jarmuth with her suburbs, En-gan'nim with
her suburbs; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal
with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
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Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with
her suburbs; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of Naph'tali, Kedesh
in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the
slayer; and Ham'moth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her
suburbs; three cities.
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All the cities of the Ger'shonites
according to their families were thirteen cities with their
suburbs.
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And unto the families of the children
of Mera'ri, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zeb'ulun,
Jok'ne-am with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
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Dimnah with her suburbs, Na'halal with
her suburbs; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer
with her suburbs, and Jaha'zah with her suburbs,
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Kede'moth with her suburbs, and
Meph'a-ath with her suburbs; four cities.
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And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in
Gil'e-ad with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the
slayer; and Mahana'im with her suburbs,
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Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her
suburbs; four cities in all.
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So all the cities for the children of
Mera'ri by their families, which were remaining of the families of
the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
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All the cities of the Levites within
the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight
cities with their suburbs.
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These cities were every one with their
suburbs round about them: thus were all these
cities.
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Israel Possesses the
Land |
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And the LORD gave
unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers;
and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
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And the LORD gave
them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their
fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them;
the LORD delivered all their enemies into their
hand.
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There failed not aught of any good thing
which the LORD had spoken unto the house of
Israel; all came to pass.
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