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Brenton's Septuagint

Joshua 21:19

All the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, thirteen.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaronites;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judah;   Levi;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Kohathites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Suburb;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Refuge, Cities of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Levites;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All thirteen cities with their pasturelands were for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
Hebrew Names Version
All the cities of the children of Aharon, the Kohanim, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
King James Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Lexham English Bible
All the cities of the descendants of Aaron the priests, thirteen cities and their pasturelands.
English Standard Version
The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.
New Century Version
So these thirteen towns with their pastures were given to the priests, who were from the family of Aaron.
New English Translation
The priests descended from Aaron received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.
Amplified Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
New American Standard Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All the cities of the children of Aaron Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Complete Jewish Bible
All the cities of the descendants of Aharon, the cohanim, numbered thirteen cities with their surrounding open land.
Darby Translation
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Easy-to-Read Version
In all, they gave 13 towns to the priests. (All priests were descendants of Aaron.) They also gave them some land near each town for their animals.
George Lamsa Translation
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priest, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Good News Translation
Thirteen cities in all, with their pasture lands, were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
Literal Translation
And all the cities of the sons of Aaron the priest were thirteen cities and their open land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that all the cities of the children of Aaron the prest were thirtene with their suburbes.
American Standard Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Bible in Basic English
Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All these cities of the children of Aaron priestes, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them.
King James Version (1611)
All the cities of the children of Aaron the Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbs.
English Revised Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Berean Standard Bible
Altogether thirteen cities with their pasturelands were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle the citees togidere of the sones of Aaron, preest, weren threttene, with her subarbis.
Young's Literal Translation
all the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, [are] thirteen cities and their suburbs.
Update Bible Version
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Webster's Bible Translation
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
World English Bible
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
New King James Version
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their common-lands.
New Living Translation
So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
New Life Bible
For the sons of Aaron, the religious leaders, there were thirteen cities in all, with their fields.
New Revised Standard
The towns of the descendants of Aaron—the priests—were thirteen in all, with their pasture lands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities, with their pasture lands.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest, were thirteen, with their suburbs,
Revised Standard Version
The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
THE MESSAGE
The total for the cities and pastures for the priests descended from Aaron came to thirteen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

Contextual Overview

9 And the tribe of the children of Juda, and the tribe of the children of Symeon, and part of the tribe of the children of Benjamin gave these cities, and they were assigned 10 to the sons of Aaron of the family of Caath of the sons of Levi, for the lot fell to these. 11 And they gave to them Cariatharboc the metropolis of the sons of Enac; this is Chebron in the mountain country of Juda, and the suburbs round it. 12 But the lands of the city, and its villages Joshua gave to the sons of Chaleb the son of Jephonne for a possession. 13 And to the sons of Aaron he gave the city of refuge for the slayer, Chebron, and the suburbs belonging to it; and Lemna and the suburbs belonging to it; 14 and Ælom and its suburbs; and Tema and its suburbs; 15 and Gella and its suburbs; and Dabir and its suburbs; 16 and Asa and its suburbs; and Tany and its suburbs; and Baethsamys and its suburbs: nine cities from these two tribes. 17 And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gabaon and its suburbs; and Gatheth and its suburbs; 18 and Anathoth and its suburbs; and Gamala and its suburbs; four cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 32:7 - Anathoth

Cross-References

Genesis 21:5
And Abraam was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarrha said, The Lord has made laughter for me, for whoever shall hear shall rejoice with me.
Genesis 21:16
And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bow-shot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.
Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the child from the place where he was, and an angel of God called Agar out of heaven, and said to her, What is it, Agar? fear not, for God has heard the voice of the child from the place where he is.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the child, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.
Numbers 22:31
And God opened the eyes of Balaam, and he sees the angel of the Lord withstanding him in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, and he stooped down and worshipped on his face.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,.... Those of the Kohathites that came from him:

[were] thirteen cities with their suburbs; and just so many are mentioned by name in Joshua 21:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so overruled it that the priestly families were placed upon the spot which He had determined before hand to choose as the site of His temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 21:19. Thirteen cities with their suburbs. — At the time mentioned here certainly thirteen cities were too large a proportion for the priests, as they and their families amounted to a very small number: but this ample provision was made in reference to their great increase in after times, when they formed twenty-four courses, as in the days of David.


 
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