Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
KJV
Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
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Commentary
Kedemoth with her suburbs,.... Near to which was a wilderness of that name; see
Deu 2:26
,
and Mephaath with her suburbs; of which See Gill on
Jos 13:18
; where the two preceding cities are mentioned along with it:
four cities,
Jos 21:35
, 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 (e); and the same words are to be, found in
Ch1 6:78
, 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,
Jos 21:40
.
(e) Thesaur. Philolog. l. 1. c. 2. p. 181, &c.
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