Joshua 21:18

18 Anathoth and Almon, together with their pasturelands—four towns.

Joshua 21:18 in Other Translations

18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.

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

18 Anathoth, and Almon—four towns.

18 Anathoth, and Almon, together with their pastures - four towns.

18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.

18 Anathoth, and Almon.

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

18 Anathoth and Almon. The total number of those towns and their grasslands was four.

Joshua 21:18 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:18

Anathoth with her suburbs
This is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:11-28 ) ; it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah, (See Gill on Jeremiah 1:1); it lay about two or three miles north of Jerusalem; three, says, Jerom ^F11. Rauwolff ^F12 speaks of it as a small village, when he travelled into those parts, and as lying on a height or eminence, and which was within twenty furlongs of Jerusalem, as Josephus writes ^F13: and Almon with her suburbs;
this also is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:11-28 ) ; it is called Alemeth, ( 1 Chronicles 6:60 ) . Jarchi and Kimchi say it is the same with Bahurim, ( 2 Samuel 3:16 ) ; where the Targum renders it by Almeth, and both words signify the same thing, "youth": four cities;
which were a large number for so small a tribe as little Benjamin to give.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H.
F12 Travels, par. 3. c. 2. p. 216.
F13 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 7. sect. 3.

Joshua 21:18 In-Context

16 Ain, Juttah and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands—nine towns from these two tribes.

17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,

18 Anathoth and Almon, together with their pasturelands—four towns.

19 The total number of towns for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.

20 The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted towns from the tribe of Ephraim:

Cross References

• 1. 2 Samuel 23:27; 1 Kings 2:26; Ezra 2:23; Nehemiah 7:27; Nehemiah 11:32; Isaiah 10:30; Jeremiah 1:1; Jeremiah 11:21; Jeremiah 32:7