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<span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, for the lot was theirs first. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Thus they gave them Kiriath-arba, <i>Arba being</i> the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>So to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Libnah with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>and Jattir with its pasture lands and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>and Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>and Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands <i>and</i> Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, <i>even to</i> the rest of the sons of Kohath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>From the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>From the half-tribe of Manasseh, <i>they allotted</i> Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>To the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, <i>they gave</i> Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>From the tribe of Issachar, <i>they gave</i> Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>From the tribe of Asher, <i>they gave</i> Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>From the tribe of Naphtali, <i>they gave</i> Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>To the families of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, <i>they gave</i> from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>From the tribe of Reuben, <i>they gave</i> Bezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>From the tribe of Gad, <i>they gave</i> Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Mahanaim with its pasture lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>All <i>these were</i> the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>These cities each had its surrounding pasture lands; thus <i>it was</i> with all these cities. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>So the L<font size="1">ORD</font> gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the L<font size="1">ORD</font> gave all their enemies into their hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/21-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>Not one of the good promises which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/joshua/21.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/joshua/21.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Josue gave cities: whose names are these, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/joshua/21.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which were mentioned by name,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/joshua/21.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/joshua/21.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/joshua/21.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/joshua/21.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And they give out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are called by name;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_8_there_failed_not.htm">October 8. "There Failed not Aught of any Good Thing which the Lord had Spoken" (Josh. xxi. 45). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken" (Josh. xxi. 45). Some day, even you, trembling, faltering one, shall stand upon those heights and look back upon all you have passed through, all you have narrowly escaped, all the perils through which He guided you, the stumblings through which He guarded you, and the sins from which He saved you; and you shall shout, with a meaning you cannot understand now, "Salvation unto Him who sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_8_there_failed_not.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_end_of_the_war.htm">The End of the War</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which He sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. 44. And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that He sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand. 45. There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. 'Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_end_of_the_war.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_11_the_mountainous_country.htm">The Mountainous Country of Judea. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"What is the mountainous country of Judea? It is the king's mountain." However Judea, here and there, doth swell out much with mountains, yet its chief swelling appears in that broad back of mountains, that runs from the utmost southern cost as far as Hebron, and almost as Jerusalem itself. Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. Unless I am very much mistaken,--the maps of Adricomus, Tirinius, and others, ought to be corrected, which have feigned to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_11_the_mountainous_country.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_55_divers_matters.htm">Divers Matters. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. Beth-cerem, Nehemiah 3:14. "The stones, as well of the altar, as of the ascent to the altar, were from the valley of Beth-cerem, which they digged out beneath the barren land. And thence they are wont to bring whole stones, upon which the working iron came not." The fathers of the traditions, treating concerning the blood of women's terms, reckon up five colours of it; among which that, "which is like the water of the earth, out of the valley of Beth-cerem."--Where the Gloss writes thus, "Beth-cerem <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_55_divers_matters.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_44_nob_bahurim.htm">Nob. Bahurim. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">That Nob was placed in the land of Benjamin, not far from Jerusalem, whence Jerusalem also might be seen,--the words of the Chaldee paraphrast, upon Isaiah 10:32, do argue. For so he speaks; "Sennacherib came and stood in Nob, a city of the priests, before the walls of Jerusalem; and said to his army, 'Is not this the city of Jerusalem, against which I have raised my whole army, and have subdued all the provinces of it? Is it not small and weak in comparison of all the fortifications of the Gentiles, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_44_nob_bahurim.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/joshua.htm">Joshua</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The book of Joshua is the natural complement of the Pentateuch. Moses is dead, but the people are on the verge of the promised land, and the story of early Israel would be incomplete, did it not record the conquest of that land and her establishment upon it. The divine purpose moves restlessly on, until it is accomplished; so "after the death of Moses, Jehovah spake to Joshua," i. 1. The book falls naturally into three divisions: (a) the conquest of Canaan (i.-xii.), (b) the settlement of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/joshua.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/joshua/21-9.htm">Joshua 21:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/joshua/21-9.htm">Joshua 21:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/joshua/21-9.htm">Joshua 21:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/joshua/21-9.htm">Joshua 21:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/joshua/21-9.htm">Joshua 21:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/joshua/21-9.htm">Joshua 21:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/joshua/21-9.htm">Joshua 21:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../joshua/21-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 21:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 21:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joshua/21-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joshua 21:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joshua 21:10" /></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/joshua/21-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>