Joshua 21:42 Each of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it; this was true for all these towns.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Each of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it; this was true for all these towns.

English Standard Version
These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities.

New American Standard Bible
These cities each had its surrounding pasture lands; thus it was with all these cities.

King James Bible
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

International Standard Version
These cities were each surrounded by pasture lands, as was the case with all of these cities.

American Standard Version
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.

Darby Bible Translation
Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it: thus were all these cities.

Young's Literal Translation
These cities are each city and its suburbs round about it; so to all these 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

41. All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs—This may appear too great a proportion compared with those of the other tribes. But it must be borne in mind that the list given here contains the names of every Levitical city (see on [204]1Ch 6:39-66); whereas only those cities of the other tribes are mentioned which lay on the frontier or along the boundary line. Besides, the Levites were not the exclusive inhabitants of those forty-eight cities; for there must have been also a considerable number of people kept there to cultivate the glebe lands and tend the cattle. Still further, the Levitical cities had nothing but "their suburbs round about them" [Jos 21:42]; whereas the other cities in Israel possessed a group of independent villages (see Jos 17:1-19:51).