Yehoshua 21:18

18 Anatot with its migrash, and Almon with its migrash; 4 towns.

Yehoshua 21:18 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:18

Anathoth with her suburbs
This is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:11-28 ) ; it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah, (See Gill on Jeremiah 1:1); it lay about two or three miles north of Jerusalem; three, says, Jerom ^F11. Rauwolff ^F12 speaks of it as a small village, when he travelled into those parts, and as lying on a height or eminence, and which was within twenty furlongs of Jerusalem, as Josephus writes ^F13: and Almon with her suburbs;
this also is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:11-28 ) ; it is called Alemeth, ( 1 Chronicles 6:60 ) . Jarchi and Kimchi say it is the same with Bahurim, ( 2 Samuel 3:16 ) ; where the Targum renders it by Almeth, and both words signify the same thing, "youth": four cities;
which were a large number for so small a tribe as little Benjamin to give.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H.
F12 Travels, par. 3. c. 2. p. 216.
F13 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 7. sect. 3.

Yehoshua 21:18 In-Context

16 And Ayin with its migrash, and Yutah with its migrash, and Beit Shemesh with its migrash; 9 towns out of those two shevatim (tribes).

17 And out of the tribe of Binyamin, Giveon with its migrash, Geva with its migrash,

18 Anatot with its migrash, and Almon with its migrash; 4 towns.

19 All the towns of the Bnei Aharon, the Kohanim, were 13 towns with their migrash.

20 And the mishpekhot of the Bnei Kehat, the Levi’im which remained of the Bnei Kehat, even they had the towns of their goral out of the tribe of Ephrayim.