Joshua - 21:37

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37 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 21:37.

Differing Translations

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and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.
Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.
Kedemoth with the open land about it, and Mephaath with the open land about it; four cities.
Cedemoth et suburbana ejus: Mephaath et suburbana ejus: urbes quatuor.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Kedemoth with her suburbs,.... Near to which was a wilderness of that name; see Deuteronomy 2:26,
and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which See Gill on Joshua 13:18; where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it:
four cities, Joshua 21:35, are not in some ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, as is noted by the Masorites; but are in some others, as Kimchi owns, and stand in the Targum, in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and in a manuscript referred to by Hottinger (e); and the same words are to be, found in 1-Chronicles 6:78, and are absolutely necessary to be retained, since without them there would be but eight cities for the Merarites, whereas they are expressly said to be twelve, Joshua 21:40.
(e) Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. c. 2. p. 181, &c.

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