Jozua 21:18

18 Anathoth en haar voorsteden, en Almon en haar voorsteden: vier steden.

Jozua 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.

Jozua 21:18 In-Context

16 En Ain en haar voorsteden, en Jutta en haar voorsteden, en Beth-Semes en haar voorsteden; negen steden van deze twee stammen.

17 En van den stam van Benjamin, Gibeon en haar voorsteden, Geba en haar voorsteden;

18 Anathoth en haar voorsteden, en Almon en haar voorsteden: vier steden.

19 Al de steden der kinderen van Aaron, de priesteren, waren dertien steden en haar voorsteden.

20 De huisgezinnen nu der kinderen van Kahath, de Levieten, die overgebleven waren van de kinderen van Kahath, die hadden de steden huns lots van den stam van Efraim.