Joshua 21:12

12 But the fields of the town and its villages had been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his holding.

Joshua 21:12 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:12

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof
Which lay beyond the two thousand cubits:

gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh, for his possession;
as Moses had promised, and Joshua had confirmed to him; and now the children of Israel gave them to him, and put him in the possession of, ( Joshua 14:6 Joshua 14:13 ) ( 15:13 ) ; and the same is to be observed of all the other cities given to the Levites, that they and their suburbs, extending to such a distance only, were given to them; but the fields and villages, which belonged to them, continued the inheritance of the tribes in which they were.

Joshua 21:12 In-Context

10 which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites who belonged to the Levites, since the lot fell to them first.

11 They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture lands around it.

12 But the fields of the town and its villages had been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his holding.

13 To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasture lands, Libnah with its pasture lands,

14 Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,