Joshua 21 - Introduction
_EIGHT AND FORTY CITIES ARE GIVEN BY LOT OUT OF THE OTHER TRIBES, TO THE LEVITES. GOD GIVETH REST UNTO THE ISRAELITES._ _Before Christ 1444._... [ Continue Reading ]
_EIGHT AND FORTY CITIES ARE GIVEN BY LOT OUT OF THE OTHER TRIBES, TO THE LEVITES. GOD GIVETH REST UNTO THE ISRAELITES._ _Before Christ 1444._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 1. _THEN CAME NEAR THE HEADS OF THE FATHERS OF THE LEVITES UNTO ELEAZAR_— Immediately after the designation of the cities of refuge, _the heads of the Levites, i.e._ the chiefs of the families of Levi, who descended from _Kohath, Gershom,_ and _Merari,_ came and presented themselves before El... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 4. _THIRTEEN CITIES_— Providence caused to fall to the portion of the Kohathites, (i.e. to the branch of the house of Kohath, and of the whole tribe of Levi, which alone could pretend to the priesthood,) all those cities nearest to Jerusalem, in which the divine worship was one day to be fixe... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 10-18. _WHICH THE KOHATHITES HAD; FOR THEIR'S WAS THE FIRST LOT_— Thus the Levite priests had for their part, as well _in Simeon as in Judah, Hebron,_ excepting the country about it, which was already given to Caleb; ch. Joshua 14:14. _Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa, Holon, Debir, Ain, Juttah,_ and... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 19. _ALL THE CITIES OF THE CHILDREN OF AARON, THE PRIESTS, WERE THIRTEEN_— But why thirteen cities to the priests, it may be asked, who were then so few in number? To which we may reply, it is the right, the lordship of these cities which is given them, and that not according to what they the... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 36, 37. _AND OUT OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN,_ &C.— These two verses are not in the oldest Hebrew copies. The Massoretes themselves say as much: they mention, however, that they are found in several very ancient copies; and the learned Hottinger, who has carefully entered into the subject, remarks... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 41, 42. _ALL THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES—WERE FORTY AND EIGHT—WITH THEIR SUBURBS_— Here we are to observe, 1. That Moses could never have assigned to the Levites beforehand the forty-eight cities contained in the lift above-mentioned, without prejudicing the tribes, had he not been inspired by... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 45. _THERE FAILED NOT OUGHT OF ANY GOOD THING,_ &C.— Whatever God had promised them was effected in proportion to the efforts they had made on their part, under sanction of the right which God had given them, and in order to the drawing down upon them his blessing by their obedience to his la... [ Continue Reading ]