YuēShūyàjì 21:4

4 Wèi Gēxiá zú niānjiū , Lìwèi rén de jìsī , Yàlún de zǐsūn , cóng Yóudà zhīpaì , Xīmiǎn zhīpaì , Biànyǎmǐn zhīpaì de dì yè zhōng , àn jiū dé le shí sān zuò chéng .

YuēShūyàjì 21:4 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:4

And the lot came out for the family of the Kohathites
The first lot that was drawn out of the pot or urn was for the descendants of Kohath, a son of Levi:

and the children of Aaron the priest, [which were] of the Levites;
who descended from Amram, the eldest son of Kohath, and these were not only Levites, but priests: these

had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon,
and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities;
which are after mentioned by name; and as these were priests, whose business was to serve in the temple, and at the altar, the cities assigned them by the lot, were, by the wise disposal of divine Providence, ordered them out of those tribes which lay nearest to Jerusalem; the place God had chosen to put his name in, where the temple would be built, and the altars erected for sacrifices and incense.

YuēShūyàjì 21:4 In-Context

2 Zaì Jiānán dì de Shìluó duì tāmen shuō , cóng qián Yēhéhuá jiè zzhe Móxī fēnfu gĕi wǒmen chéngyì jūzhù , bìng chéngyì de jiāo yĕ kĕyǐ mù yǎng wǒmen de shēngchù .

3 Yúshì Yǐsèliè rén zhào Yēhéhuá suǒ fēnfu de , cóng zìjǐ de dì yè zhōng , jiāng yǐXiàsuǒ jì de chéngyì hé chéngyì de jiāo yĕ gĕi le Lìwèi rén .

4 Wèi Gēxiá zú niānjiū , Lìwèi rén de jìsī , Yàlún de zǐsūn , cóng Yóudà zhīpaì , Xīmiǎn zhīpaì , Biànyǎmǐn zhīpaì de dì yè zhōng , àn jiū dé le shí sān zuò chéng .

5 Gēxiá qíyú de zǐsūn , cóng Yǐfǎlián zhīpaì , dàn zhīpaì , Mǎnáxī bàn zhīpaì de dì yè zhōng , àn jiū dé le shí zuò chéng .

6 Géshùn de zǐsūn , cóng Yǐsàjiā zhīpaì , Yàshè zhīpaì , Náfútālì zhīpaì , zhù Bāshān de Mǎnáxī bàn zhīpaì de dì yè zhōng , àn jiū dé le shí sān zuò chéng .