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1 Chronicles 6:54-60

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54 These are their dwelling places according to their 1settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the 2clans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot,
55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands,
56 3but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
57 4To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,
58 Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
59 Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands;
60 and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon,[a] Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.
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1 Chronicles 6:54-60 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 6

This chapter begins with the fathers and heads of the tribe of Levi, 1Ch 6:1-3, and reckons up the high priests in the line of Eleazar, to the Babylonish captivity, 1Ch 6:4-15 gives an account of the families of the sons of Levi, 1Ch 6:16-30 and of those Levites that were employed as singers, and in other ministrations in the sanctuary in the times of David and Solomon, 1Ch 6:31-49, then follows a repetition of the sons of Aaron in the line of Eleazar, to the said times, 1Ch 6:50-53, and a recital of the dwelling places of the Levites in the several tribes, 1Ch 6:54-81.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 4

  • 1. Genesis 25:16; Numbers 31:10
  • 2. Joshua 21:4, 10
  • 3. [Joshua 14:13; Joshua 15:13]
  • 4. For ver. 57-60, see Joshua 21:13-19

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Septuagint, Syriac (compare Joshua 21:17); Hebrew lacks Gibeon
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