Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.
We have here a particular account of the cities which were given to the children of Levi out of the several tribes, not only to be occupied and inhabited by them, as tenants to the several tribes in which they lay - no, their interest in them was not dependent and precarious, but to be owned and possessed by them as lords and proprietors, and...
Commenting on Joshua 21:9-42
And Ain with her suburbs,.... See Gill on Jos 15:32, and Juttah with her suburbs; See Gill on Jos 15:55, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; which is not mentioned among the cities of Judah, Jos 15:21; only as in the borders of it, Jos 21:10; and perhaps is the same Bethshemesh to which the ark was directed by the Philistines from Ashdod, Sa1 6:9; in...
THE CITIES OF THE PRIESTS. (Jos. 21:9-42) 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.
Commenting on Joshua 21:9-42