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and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/joshua/21.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/joshua/21.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/joshua/21.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/joshua/21.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/joshua/21.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/joshua/21.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/joshua/21.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/joshua/21.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/joshua/21.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/joshua/21.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/joshua/21.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/joshua/21.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/joshua/21.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/joshua/21.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/joshua/21.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/joshua/21.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/joshua/5-12.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/joshua/21.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/joshua/21.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/joshua/21.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/joshua/21.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/joshua/21.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/joshua/21.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/joshua/21.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/joshua/21.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/joshua/21.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/joshua/21.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/joshua/21.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/joshua/21.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/joshua/21.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/joshua/21.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/joshua/21.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/joshua/21.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>21:9-42 By mixing the Levites with the other tribes, they were made to see that the eyes of all Israel were upon them, and therefore it was their concern to walk so that their ministry might not be blamed. Every tribe had its share of Levites' cities. Thus did God graciously provide for keeping up religion among them, and that they might have the word in all parts of the land. Yet, blessed be God, we have the gospel more diffused amongst us.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/joshua/21.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Compare <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/19-18.htm">Joshua 19:18</a>, etc. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah.) The name is a contraction of Beth-Ashterah ("house of Ashterah") and the city is undoubtedly the Ashtaroth or Astaroth of Og <a href="/joshua/12-4.htm">Joshua 12:4</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/1-4.htm">Deuteronomy 1:4</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/6-71.htm">1 Chronicles 6:71</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/joshua/21.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Jos 21:9-42. The Cities of the Priests.<p>9-40. they gave … these cities which are here mentioned by name—It was overruled by the unerring providence of the Divine Lawgiver that the cities of the priests lay within the territories of Judah and Benjamin. This was a provision, the admirable wisdom and propriety of which were fully manifested on the schism that took place in the reign of Rehoboam.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/joshua/21.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/joshua/21.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs,.... Of which see <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/20-7.htm">Joshua 20:7</a>, <p>to be a city of refuge for the slayer; this is the fourth city of refuge mentioned: <p>and Hammothdor with her suburbs; the same with Hammon, <a href="/1_chronicles/6-76.htm">1 Chronicles 6:76</a>; and with Hammath, <a href="/joshua/19-35.htm">Joshua 19:35</a>; and is thought by some to be Tiberias, so called from the hot baths in or near it: <p>and Kartan with her suburbs; called Kirjathaim, <a href="/1_chronicles/6-76.htm">1 Chronicles 6:76</a>; but cannot be the Kirjathaim in <a href="/numbers/32-37.htm">Numbers 32:37</a>; for that belonged to the tribe of Reuben, and was on the other side Jordan: <p>three cities; this being a lesser tribe than some others gave fewer cities, according to the rule in <a href="/numbers/35-8.htm">Numbers 35:8</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/joshua/21.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/joshua/21.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">32</span>. <span class="ital">Kedesh in Galilee</span>] See ch. <a href="/joshua/19-37.htm" title="And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,">Joshua 19:37</a>; <span class="ital">Hammoth-dor</span>, <a href="/joshua/19-35.htm" title="And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,">Joshua 19:35</a>; <span class="ital">Kartan</span> = <span class="ital">Rakkath</span>, ch. <a href="/joshua/19-35.htm" title="And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,">Joshua 19:35</a>, and written Kirjathaim, <a href="/1_chronicles/6-76.htm" title="And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.">1 Chronicles 6:76</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/joshua/21.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 32.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Galilee</span> (see above, <a href="/joshua/20-7.htm">Joshua 20:7</a>). Joshua 21:32<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/joshua/21.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>From Naphtali they received three towns: Kedesh (<a href="/joshua/19-37.htm">Joshua 19:37</a> and <a href="/joshua/12-22.htm">Joshua 12:22</a>), Hammoth-dor (called Hammath in <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/19-35.htm">Joshua 19:35</a>, and Hammon in <a href="/1_chronicles/6-76.htm">1 Chronicles 6:76</a>), and Kartan (contracted from Kartain for Kirjathaim, <a href="/1_chronicles/6-76.htm">1 Chronicles 6:76</a>; like Dothan in <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/6-13.htm">2 Kings 6:13</a>, from Dothain in <a href="/genesis/37-17.htm">Genesis 37:17</a>). Kartan is not mentioned among the towns of Naphtali in <a href="/joshua/19-33.htm">Joshua 19:33</a>.; according to Knobel it may possibly be Katanah, a place with ruins to the north-east of Safed (Van de Velde, Mem. p. 147).<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../joshua/21-31.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 21:31"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 21:31" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joshua/21-33.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joshua 21:33"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joshua 21:33" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>