John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 21:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Ain with her suburbs, etc.] (See Gill on “<061532>Joshua 15:32”); and Juttah with her suburbs; (see Gill on “<061555>Joshua 15:55”); [and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs; which is not mentioned among the cities of Judah, (<061521>Joshua 15:21-63); only as in the borders of it, (<062110>Joshua 21:10); and perhaps is the same Bethshemesh to which the ark was directed by the Philistines from Ashdod, (<090609>1 Samuel 6:9,12); in it formerly was a temple dedicated to the sun, from whence it had its name: nine cities out of those two tribes; and they seem all but one, which is Ain, to be of the tribe of Judah, and that originally belonged to it; and as that tribe had the largest number of cities in its lot, the more were given out of it to the Levites, according to a rule prescribed, (<043508>Numbers 35:8).

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