Joshua 21:42
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
Joshua 21:42 in other translations
| BSB | Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities. |
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| WEB | Each of these cities included their pasture lands around them. It was this way with all these cities. |
| ASV | These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities. |
| YLT | These cities are each city and its suburbs round about it; so to all these cities. |
| DARBY | Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it: thus were all these cities. |
| BBE | Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it. |
| Webster | These cities were every one with their suburbs around them. Thus were all these cities. |
What does Joshua 21:42 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 21:9-42
By mixing the Levites with the other tribes, they were made to see that the eyes of all Israel were upon them, and therefore it was their concern to walk so that their ministry might not be blamed. Every tribe had its share of Levites' cities. Thus did God graciously provide for keeping up religion among them, and that they might have the word in all parts of the land. Yet, blessed be God, we have the gospel more…
Joshua 21:42 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Joshua 21:41
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:42
These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
- Joshua 21:43
And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Joshua 21:42 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y estas ciudades estaban apartadas la una de la otra cada cual con sus ejidos alrededor de ellas: lo cual fué en todas estas ciudades. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Chacune de ces villes avait sa banlieue autour d’elle; il en était ainsi pour toutes ces villes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Diese Städte hatten, Stadt für Stadt, ihre Bezirke rings um sich her: also war es bei allen diesen Städten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dataque est ab eo pax in omnes per circuitum nationes: nullusque eis hostium resistere ausus est, sed cuncti in eorum ditionem redacti sunt. |