Deuteronomy 18:2

WEB

They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: the Lord is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

KJV

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

Commentary

Therefore shall they have none inheritance among their brethren,.... Neither of the field, nor of the vineyard, as the above Targum, b ecause provision was made for them otherwise, and especially because the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them; see Gill on Num 18:20 , which as it may be understood in a spiritual sense of their interest in God, as their covenant God, and of their enjoyment of him, and communion with him; so chiefly in a temporal sense of all those things in the sacrifices which the Lord claimed to himself, and these he gave unto them; so the same Targum interprets this of the twenty four gifts of the priesthood, enumerated Num 18:1 .