Joshua 21:21

21 To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasture lands in the hill country of E'phraim, Gezer with its pasture lands,

Joshua 21:21 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:21

For they gave them Shechem, with her suburbs, in Mount
Ephraim
Of which see ( Joshua 20:7 ) ; [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer;
which being on a mountain, was the more conspicuous, and the fitter for this purpose, as was Hebron in the hill country of Judea, ( Joshua 21:11 Joshua 21:13 ) ; this is the second; city of refuge mentioned: and Gezer with her suburbs:
a place from whence the Canaanites were not expelled; (See Gill on Joshua 16:10).

Joshua 21:21 In-Context

19 The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

20 As to the rest of the Ko'hathites belonging to the Ko'hathite families of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of E'phraim.

21 To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasture lands in the hill country of E'phraim, Gezer with its pasture lands,

22 Kib'za-im with its pasture lands, Beth-hor'on with its pasture lands--four cities;

23 and out of the tribe of Dan, El'teke with its pasture lands, Gib'bethon with its pasture lands,