Joshua 21:26

26 All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the remaining families of the sons of Kohath.

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 Aijalon with its suburbs, Gathrimmon with its suburbs: four cities.

25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with its suburbs and Gathrimmon with its suburbs: two cities.

26 All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the remaining families of the sons of Kohath.

27 And unto the sons of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for manslayers, and Beeshterah with its suburbs: two cities.

28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with its suburbs, Dabareh with its suburbs,