Joshua 21:2

SHILOH. See note on Joshua 18:1. THE LORD COMMANDED. Jehovah commanded. Compare Numbers 35:1.Leviticus 25:33. HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for what is effected by it. SUBURBS. common lands, or pasture lands; and so throughout the chapter, fifty-seven times.... [ Continue Reading ]

Joshua 21:36

AND OUT OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN. See note on Joshua 21:38. Reuben. Some codices, with one early printed edition, add "a city of refuge for the manslayer BEZER. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, add in the desert". AND JAHASAH. Some codices omit this "and... [ Continue Reading ]

Joshua 21:38

By an _Homoceoteleuton_ (App-6) some scribe, writing as far as "four cities "at end of Joshua 21:35, went back with his eye to the same words at the end of Joshua 21:37, and omitted, by an accident, the two verses Joshua 21:36 and Joshua 21:37, and continued at Joshua 21:38, which commences with the... [ Continue Reading ]

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