Joshua - 21:18



18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 21:18.

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And Anathoth and Almon, with their suburbs: four cities.
Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
Anathoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities.
Anathoth et suburbana ejus, Almon et suburbana ejus: urbes quatuor.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Anathoth - Celebrated as the birthplace of Jeremiah, about three miles northward of Jerusalem, according to St. Jerome.

Anathoth with her suburbs,.... This is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, Joshua 18:11; it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah; see Gill on Jeremiah 1:1; it lay about two or three miles north of Jerusalem; three, says, Jerom (k). Rauwolff (l) speaks of it as a small village, when he travelled into those parts, and as lying on a height or eminence, and which was within twenty furlongs of Jerusalem, as Josephus writes (m):
and Almon with her suburbs; this also is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, Joshua 18:11; it is called Alemeth, 1-Chronicles 6:60. Jarchi and Kimchi say it is the same with Bahurim, 2-Samuel 3:16; where the Targum renders it by Almeth, and both words signify the same thing, "youth":
four cities; which were a large number for so small a tribe as little Benjamin to give.
(k) De loc. Hebrews. fol. 88. H. (l) Travels, par. 3. c. 2. p. 216. (m) Antiqu. l. 10. c. 7. sect. 3.

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