Joshua 21:9
 Joshua 21:9 
New International Version (©2011)
From the tribes of Judah and Simeon they allotted the following towns by name

New Living Translation (©2007)
The Israelites gave the following towns from the tribes of Judah and Simeon

English Standard Version (©2001)
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,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They gave these cities which are here mentioned by name from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Israelites gave these cities by name from the tribes of the descendants of Judah and Simeon

International Standard Version (©2012)
From the tribes of the descendants of Judah and Simeon, they gave these cities, delineated by name:

NET Bible (©2006)
They assigned from the tribes of Judah and Simeon the cities listed below.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
These are the names of the cities from the tribes of Judah and Simeon

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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,

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Josue gave cities: whose names are these,

Darby Bible Translation
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,

English Revised Version
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:

Webster's Bible Translation
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,

World English Bible
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:

Young's Literal Translation
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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,.... Here follows a particular account of the several cities which were given out of each tribe, and first out of this:

and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon; which is joined with that of Judah, because the cities of it lay within it, Joshua 19:1,

these cities which are here mentioned by name; Joshua 21:13.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Jos 21:9-42. The Cities of the Priests.

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.


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Forty-Eight Cities of the Levites
8And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. 9And 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. 10Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot. …

Joshua 21:8 So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Joshua 21:10 (these towns were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them):
2 Chronicles 31:15 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests, distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and young alike.