51 Goshen, Holon and Giloh-eleven towns and their villages.
51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.
51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh - eleven towns and their villages.
51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages;
51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh-eleven towns with their surrounding villages.
15 Holon, Debir,
15 And Holon
15 Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
15 , Holon, Debir
15 Holon with its common-land, Debir with its common-land,
15 Holon, Debir,
(Read Joshua 21:9-42)
By mixing the Levites with the other tribes, they were made to see that the eyes of all Israel were upon them, and therefore it was their concern to walk so that their ministry might not be blamed. Every tribe had its share of Levites' cities. Thus did God graciously provide for keeping up religion among them, and that they might have the word in all parts of the land. Yet, blessed be God, we have the gospel more diffused amongst us.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 15:51
Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63
(Read Joshua 15:20-63)
Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but little among the thousands of Judah, Micah 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.