Compare Joshua 19:18 and similar passages. Of the cities of the Gershonites, for Beesh-terah read (Beeshterah). The name is a contraction of Beth-A…

Helkath with her suburbs (See Gill on Joshua 19:25); the same with Hukok in (1 Chronicles 6:75) ; and Rehob with her suburbs, …

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 t…