约书亚记 21:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以色列人把誤殺人者的避難城希伯崙，和希伯崙的郊野，又把立拿和立拿的郊野給了亞倫祭司的子孫，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 将 希 伯 仑 ， 就 是 误 杀 人 的 逃 城 和 属 城 的 郊 野 ， 给 了 祭 司 亚 伦 的 子 孙 ； 又 给 他 们 立 拿 和 属 城 的 郊 野 ，

Contextual Overview

⁹ These are the names of the towns that came from the lands of Judah and Simeon. ¹⁰ The first choice of towns was given to the Kohath family groups of the Levites. ¹¹ They gave them Kiriath Arba, also called Hebron, and all its pastures in the mountains of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.) ¹² But the fields and the villages around Kiriath Arba had been given to Caleb son of Jephunneh. ¹³ So they gave the city of Hebron to the descendants of Aaron (Hebron was a city of safety). They also gave them the towns of Libnah, ¹⁴ Jattir, Eshtemoa, ¹⁵ Holon, Debir, ¹⁶ Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, and all the pastures around them. Nine towns were given from these two tribes. ¹⁷ They also gave the people of Aaron these cities that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon, Geba, ¹⁸ Anathoth, and Almon. They gave them these four towns and the pastures around them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they gave: 1 Chronicles 6:56

Hebron: Joshua 15:54

a city: Joshua 20:7, Numbers 35:6

Libnah: Joshua 10:29, Joshua 15:42, 1 Chronicles 6:57, Isaiah 37:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:22 - Hebron Joshua 10:36 - Hebron Joshua 21:9 - these cities 2 Kings 8:22 - Libnah 2 Chronicles 21:10 - Libnah Luke 1:39 - city

Cross-References

Genesis 16:10
The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted."

Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 21:12
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.

Genesis 21:18
Help him up and take him by the hand. I will make his descendants into a great nation."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest,.... The families of the Kohathites, that part of them which descended from him, and were priests:

Hebron with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; that had slain a person unawares, and without design; see on Joshua 20:3;

and Libnah with her suburbs; a royal city, of which see

Joshua 10:29.

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.