Yosua 21:41

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Seluruhnya kota-kota orang Lewi di tengah-tengah milik orang Israel ada empat puluh delapan kota dengan tanah-tanah penggembalaannya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Seluruhnya kota-kota orang Lewi di tengah-tengah milik orang Israel ada empat puluh delapan kota dengan tanah-tanah penggembalaannya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jumlah segala negeri orang Lewi, di tengah-tengah milik bani Israel, adalah empat puluh delapan buah negeri dengan tanah rumputnya.

Contextual Overview

⁹ And they gaue out of the tribe of the children of Iuda, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities by name. ¹⁰ Which the children of Aaron being of the kynredes of the Caathites, and of the childre of Leui, obtained: (for theirs was the first lotte.) ¹¹ And they gaue them Kiriath Arba of the father of Enac (which is Hebron) in the hyll countrey of Iuda, with the suburbes of the same rounde about it. ¹² But the lande that pertayned to the citie and the villages therof, gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephune, to be his possession. ¹³ And thus they gaue to the childre of Aaron the priest, a citie to the which the slayer myght flee, euen Hebron with her suburbes, and Libna with her suburbes, ¹⁴ And Iathir with her suburbes, and Estemoa with he suburbes: ¹⁵ Holon with her suburbes, Dabir with her suburbes: ¹⁶ Ain with her suburbes, Iuttah with her suburbes, Bethsames with her suburbes: nine cities out of those two tribes. ¹⁷ And out of the tribe of Beniamin, they gaue Gibeon with her suburbes, Gabae with her suburbes, ¹⁸ Anatoth with her suburbes, Almon with her suburbes, foure cities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

within: Genesis 49:7, Numbers 35:1-8, Deuteronomy 33:10

forty: At the last census, the tribe of Levi amounted only to 23,000 - Numbers 26:62, and it is thought by some that forty-eight cities was too great a proportion for this tribe. But it should be considered, that cities in ancient times were little more than villages.

Reciprocal: Joshua 21:35 - Dimnah 1 Chronicles 6:64 - the children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the cities of the Levites, within the possession of the children of Israel,.... As comprised in one sum total:

[were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs; which is just the number that Moses from the mouth of God ordered to be given unto them, before they entered into the land, and before they were in possession of one city in it, Numbers 35:7; which, as it is a proof of the omniscience, prescience, and predetermination of God; so of the sure and true prediction of Moses, who could not be otherwise certain than from the Lord of the Israelites being able to give so many cities to them, out of each of their tribes: and it is to be observed, that this tribe of Levi, though it had no share in the division of the land, yet had more cities by lot given to it than any other, excepting the tribe of Judah; though indeed, in the account of some of the tribes, all the cities in them are not mentioned; and besides, they had only the cities they had with their suburbs round about them, but not the lands belonging to them, nor the villages; however this shows that a large and liberal maintenance of the ministers of the Lord, that serve in his sanctuary should be allowed and made for them, as in the legal, so under the Gospel dispensation

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 21:41. Forty and eight cities — At the last census of the Hebrew people, related Numbers 26:0, we find from Numbers 26:62 that the tribe of Levi amounted only to 23,000; and it is supposed that forty-eight cities were too great a proportion for this tribe, the other tribes having so very few. But,

1. All the cities of the other tribes are not enumerated.

2. They had the circumjacent country as well as the cities.

3. The Levites had no other cities than those enumerated.

4. They had no country annexed to their cities, the 2,000 cubits for their cattle, c., excepted.

5. Cities in those ancient times were very small, as most villages went under this appellation

6. The Levites had now the appointment that was suited to their consequent increase. The other tribes might enlarge their borders and make conquests, but this was not suitable to the mere servants of God besides, had they made conquests, they would have become proprietors of the conquered land; and God determined that they should have no inheritance in Israel, HE himself being their portion.