Joshua 21:37 Kedemoth and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands--four towns;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Kedemoth and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands--four towns;

English Standard Version
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities;

New American Standard Bible
Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

King James Bible
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands--four cities.

International Standard Version
Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands, for a total of four cities.

American Standard Version
Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.

Darby Bible Translation
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs: four cities;

Young's Literal Translation
Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs -- four cities.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.