Joshua 21:9-19

Cities and Pasturelands Allotted to Levi

9 Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name, 10 which went to d the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since the lot fell to them first. 11 e They gave them f Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, g in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it. 12 But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

13 And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, h the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, i Libnah with its pasturelands, 14 Jattir with its pasturelands, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, 15 Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 16 Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands - nine cities out of these two tribes; 17 then out of the tribe of Benjamin, j Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands, 18 Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands - four cities. 19 The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 21:4
    The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.
  2. Cross References
    Joshua 21:11 - 19
    They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.
    1 Chronicles 6:54 - 60
    These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot.
  3. Cross References
    Joshua 14:13 - 15
    Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
  4. Cross References
    Joshua 20:7
    So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
    Luke 1:39
    In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah.
  5. Cross References
    Joshua 20:7
    So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
  6. Cross References
    Joshua 10:29
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.
  7. Cross References
    Joshua 9:3
    But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai.
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