Joshua 21:26

26 All the cities were ten and their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.

Joshua 21:26 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:26

All the cities [were] ten, with their suburbs
Four out of Ephraim, four out of Dan, and two out of the half tribe of Manasseh: which were for the families of the children of Kohath that remained:
who were of the other branch of the Kohathites, and who did not descend from Aaron, and were only Levites, and not priests; (See Gill on Joshua 21:20).

Joshua 21:26 In-Context

24 Ajalon and its suburbs, Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: four cities;

25 and out of half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its suburbs and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: two cities.

26 All the cities were ten and their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.

27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of half the tribe of Manasseh, [they gave] the city of refuge for the slayer, Golan in Bashan and its suburbs; and Beeshterah and its suburbs: two cities;

28 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its suburbs, Dabrath and its suburbs,