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Bible Verse Review
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Joshua 21:4, Exodus 6:18, Exodus 6:20-26, Numbers 3:2-4, Numbers 3:19, Numbers 3:27, Numbers 4:2
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God said, "No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son whom Sarah will have at this same time next year."
Then Abraham answered, "I thought no one in this place respected God and that someone would kill me to get Sarah.
And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.
No one thought that I would be able to have Abraham's child, but even though Abraham is old I have given him a son."
This troubled Abraham very much because Ishmael was also his son.
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the boy and the slave woman. Do whatever Sarah tells you. The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac.
Then Abimelech came with Phicol, the commander of his army, and said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
So that place was called Beersheba because they made a promise to each other there.
Then Abraham took his knife and was about to kill his son.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families of the Kohathites,.... Who descending from Kohath, in the line of Aaron, were priests:
[who were] of the children of Levi, had; they were Levites, as descending from Levi, but were priests also, as being of the stock of Aaron, and the cities hereafter mentioned in the said tribe fell to their portion:
for theirs was the first lot; for being of the line of Aaron, and priests, they had the honour and privilege to have the first lot drawn for them, and out of the tribe for which the first lot was also drawn, the tribe of Judah; here they had their cities allotted them, for a reason before given.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 upon the spot which He had determined before hand to choose as the site of His temple.