All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
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Gill's Exposition
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,.... Those of the Kohathites that came from him:
were thirteen cities with their suburbs; and just so many are mentioned by name in Jos 21:11.
The thirteen priestly cities (see the marginal references) were all in the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. Thus, as Calvin remarks, God so overruled it that the priestly families were placed…
Adam Clarke
Thirteen cities with their suburbs - At the time mentioned here certainly thirteen cities were too large a proportion for the priests, as they and their families amounted to a very small number: but…
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…
The Cities of the Descendants of Aaron
9. And they gave We have now first a list of the cities of the priestsof the line of Aaron.
out of the tribe of the children of Judah The list now given divides…