Joshua 21:20

20 Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the ¹families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

Joshua 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:20

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites
Who were not priests: which remained of the children of Kohath;
these are the children of Moses, as Jarchi says, and those that descended from Kohath in the lines of Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim;
and were as follow.

Joshua 21:20 In-Context

18 Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.

19 All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

20 Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

21 They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

22 and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 6:66