Joshua 21:14
in Joshua 21Jattir, Eshtemoa,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
KJV
And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
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This verse in Joshua 21
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
And they gave out of
on Joshua 21:9-19
Hebron goes to the priests as a city of refuge, and verse 12 keeps Caleb's grant of Joshua 14:13 intact by giving him the fields and the villages while the walled town becomes Levite ground. Anathoth in verse 18 is where Solomon banishes Abiathar in 1 Kings 2:26 and where Jeremiah comes from in Jeremiah 1:1, so two of the sharpest turns in the history of the priesthood happen in a town listed here without comment. Gibeon heads the Benjamin group at verse 17, the town that deceived Joshua in chapter 9 and was bound to serve the house of God, and the tabernacle itself stands there in 1 Chronicles 16:39. The parallel list at 1 Chronicles 6:54-81 differs in several names, which Albert Barnes treats as variant forms and copyists' slips rather than a different grant.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Jattir with her suburbs,.... See Gill on Jos 15:48, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs; See Gill on Jos 15:50.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
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The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יַתִּר֙ | yatir | Jattir | H3492 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ | migrasheha | pasture lands its | H4054 → | 119 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ | ʾeshtemoa' | Eshtemoa | H851 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃ | migrasheha | pasture lands its | H4054 → | 119 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
יַתִּר֙Jattir
yatirH3492 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָpasture lands its
migrashehaH4054 →119 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַEshtemoa
ʾeshtemoa'H851 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃pasture lands its
migrashehaH4054 →119 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).