All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
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Gill's Exposition
All the cities of the Levites, within the possession of the children of Israel,.... As comprised in one sum total:
were forty and eight cities with their suburbs; which is just the number that Moses…
Adam Clarke
Forty and eight cities - At the last census of the Hebrew people, related Numbers 26, we find from Num 26:62 that the tribe of Levi amounted only to 23,000; and it is supposed that forty-eight cities…
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…
Cambridge Bible
All the cities of the Levites … were forty and eight cities As will be clear from the following table:
tribes.
cities.
i. Kohathites
(a) Priests
Judah and Simeon
= 9
Benjamin
= 4
(b) Not…