John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 21:37

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Kedemoth with her suburbs, etc.] Near to which was a wilderness of that name; (see <050226>Deuteronomy 2:26); and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which (see Gill on “<061318>Joshua 13:18”); where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it: four cities, (<062135>Joshua 21:35,36), 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 f510; and the same words are to be, found in (<130678>1 Chronicles 6:78,79), 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, (<062140>Joshua 21:40).

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