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The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:11
In the hill country of Judah. The word in the original is ?囹淚, mountain, the title which is consistently applied to the highlands of Palestine in the Bible, while our version translates indiscriminately by "mountain" an…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:12
The fields. The original is in the singular. We are not necessarily, therefore, to suppose that the land was mapped out into divisions analogous to our fields. Our word "land" would more accurately represent the meaning…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:13
Hebron with her suburbs to be a city of refuge for the slayer. Rather, the city of refuge for the slayer, Hebron and her cattle drives (see note above on Joshua 21:2). The translation in our version obscures the meaning…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:16
Ain with her suburbs. We have "Ashan" in 1혻Chronicles 6:59. If the view taken above of Ain (see note on Joshua 15:32, and Joshua 19:7) be correct, Ashen is the true reading here.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:18
Anathoth. The birthplace of Jeremiah, where we find that Anathoth was still a priestly city (Joshua 1:1). No doubt it was for this reason that it was chosen (1혻Kings 2:26) as the place of Abiathar's banishment. Here aga…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:21
To be a refuge for the slayer (see above Joshua 21:13). This order is observed in every case but one, which is explained in the note on Joshua 21:36.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:25
Tanach. The same as the Taanach before mentioned, Joshua 12:21. In 1혻Chronicles 6:70 (56 Hebrews text) we have Eth-aner, an obvious blunder, as the Hebrew shows, Resh having been read for Hheth, and Aleph having been in…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:27
To be a city of refuge (see above, Joshua 21:13). Be-eshterah. Thus printed by the Masorites, and thus translated by the LXX; but no doubt the same as Og's city Ashtaroth (see Joshua 12:4, and 1혻Chronicles 6:71).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:30
Abdon (see note on Joshua 19:28).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:32
Galilee (see above, Joshua 20:7).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:36
And out of the tribe of Reuben. This verse and the succeeding have the Masoretic note appended that they are not found in the Masora or true tradition. Kimchi therefore rejects them. But they are found in the LXX. and t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:38
To be a city of refuge (see above, Joshua 21:13). Mahanaim (see Joshua 13:26). Perhaps the unquestionable entente cordiale between David and the sacerdotal party may have determined him to fix on this as his refuge when…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:41
The established Church of Israel. These words project before us essentially the Church establishment of ancient Israel. It is quite true that the Old Testament priesthood in its functions differed in very many most esse…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:42
These cities. Rather, perhaps, these cities were, (i.e; "have been enumerated,'' or "were given"), city by city, and their cattle drives surrounding them, thus was it with all these cities.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 21:43-45
God promised to give to the seed of Abraham the land of Canaan for a possession, and now they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the promise of the heavenly Canaan is as sure to all God's spiritual Israel; for it is t…
Matthew Henry on Joshua 21:43-45
We have here the conclusion of this whole matter, the foregoing history summed up, and, to make it appear the more bright, compared with the promise of which it was the full accomplishment. God's word and his works mutu…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:43-45
"The Lord is not a man that He should lie, or the Son of Man that He should repent." His promises are "yea and amen." This is the great truth brought home to us by the beautiful conclusion of the partition of the land o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:43-45
God's faithfulness. I. WE MAY ASSURE OURSELVES OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS BY A CONSIDERATION OF THE GROUNDS ON WHICH IT RESTS. (a) in nature?봧n changeless laws, as of light and gravitation, and in geological uniformity; (b)…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:43-45
Last among the tribes to know the particular inheritance assigned to them came the Levites, since they were not to occupy a distinct territory, but certain selected cities in each district. By this arrangement each trib…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:43
And the Lord gave. The LXX. adds before this passage: "And Joshua completed the division of the land in its boundaries, and the children gave a portion to Joshua, by the commandment of the Lord. They gave to him the cit…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:44
And the Lord gave them rest. LXX. 觀慣?琯??慣??琯館. The student of Scripture will not fail to recall the passage in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Joshua 4:8) in which reference is made to this passage, and especially to the LX…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:45
The record of God's faithfulness. A beautiful little word, recording a nation's experience, and one adopted as the correct statement of the experience of multitudes that none can number! Look at it, and observe first??…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:45
Ought of any good thing. Literally, a word from all the good word. This Keil regards as the "sum of all the gracious promises that God had made." But he should have added that ?寧?寧淚, beside signifying, as it does, "word…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 21:45
God's faithfulness. This cannot mean that the Divine plan in reference to Israel's possession of the land was now in all respects completely fulfilled. The Canaanite still dwelt in certain parts of it, and was never rea…