Joshua 21:42

42 Each of these cities had pasturelands surrounding them; so [it was] for all of these cities.

Joshua 21:42 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:42

These cities were everyone with their suburbs round about
them
Which reached to the space of two thousand cubits on every side; and such a space was assigned to everyone of the above cities for their cattle, to keep them in and lay up provision for them:

thus [were] all their cities;
six of them cities of refuge, and forty two for the priests and Levites to dwell in, and for the commodious use of their herds and flocks.

Joshua 21:42 In-Context

40 All [these were] the cities of the descendants of Merarite according to their families, the remaining families of the Levites; their allotment was twelve cities.

41 All the cities of the Levites among the property of the {Israelites} [were] forty-eight cities and their pasturelands.

42 Each of these cities had pasturelands surrounding them; so [it was] for all of these cities.

43 And Yahweh gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their ancestors, and they took possession of it and {settled in it}.

44 Yahweh gave them rest on every side, according to all that he had sworn to their ancestors, and nobody from all their enemies withstood them, for Yahweh had given all their enemies into their hand.