Joshua 21:40 The total number of towns allotted to the Merarite clans, who were the rest of the Levites, came to twelve.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The total number of towns allotted to the Merarite clans, who were the rest of the Levites, came to twelve.

English Standard Version
As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.

New American Standard Bible
All these were 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.

King James Bible
So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All 12 cities were allotted to the clans of Merari's descendants, the remaining Levite clans.

International Standard Version
So the entire allocation to the descendants of Merari (that is, the rest of the families of the descendants of Levi) according to their families totaled twelve cities.

American Standard Version
All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and kindreds, were twelve.

Darby Bible Translation
These were all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.

Young's Literal Translation
All the cities for the sons of Merari, for their families, who are left of the families of the Levites -- their lot is twelve 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.