Josué 21:37

37 Kedémoth et sa banlieue, et Méphaath et sa banlieue, quatre villes;

Josué 21:37 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:37

Kedemoth with her suburbs
Near to which was a wilderness of that name; see ( Deuteronomy 2:26 ) ;

and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which (See Gill on Joshua 13:18); where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it:

four cities,
( Joshua 21:35 Joshua 21:36 ) , are not in some ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, as is noted by the Masorites; but are in some others, as Kimchi owns, and stand in the Targum, in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and in a manuscript referred to by Hottinger ^F5; and the same words are to be, found in ( 1 Chronicles 6:78 1 Chronicles 6:79 ) , and are absolutely necessary to be retained, since without them there would be but eight cities for the Merarites, whereas they are expressly said to be twelve, ( Joshua 21:40 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. c. 2. p. 181

Josué 21:37 In-Context

35 Dimna et sa banlieue, et Nahalal et sa banlieue, quatre villes;

36 de la tribu de Ruben, Betser et sa banlieue, Jahtsa et sa banlieue,

37 Kedémoth et sa banlieue, et Méphaath et sa banlieue, quatre villes;

38 et de la tribu de Gad, la ville de refuge pour les meurtriers, Ramoth en Galaad et sa banlieue, Mahanaïm et sa banlieue,

39 Hesbon et sa banlieue, et Jaezer et sa banlieue, en tout quatre villes.