Joshua 21:20

20 ¹As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.

Joshua 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:20

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites
Who were not priests: which remained of the children of Kohath;
these are the children of Moses, as Jarchi says, and those that descended from Kohath in the lines of Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim;
and were as follow.

Joshua 21:20 In-Context

18 Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands--four cities.

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

20 As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.

21 To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

22 Kibzaim with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands--four cities;

Cross References

• 1. For ver. 20-26, see 1 Chronicles 6:66-70