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The Levites' Unique Status
Commentators note that the text repeatedly mentions the Levites receiving no land inheritance. This serves two purposes: it highlights the integrity of Moses, who did not favor his own tribe of Levi, and it reminds the other tribes of their ongoing responsibility to provide for the Levites as God had commanded.
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Joshua
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Charles Ellicott
On Joshua 14:1–5
19th Century
Bishop
(Joshua 14-19, inclusive).
And these are the countries which ... Eleazar ... and Joshua ... distributed. Here w…
John Gill
On Joshua 14:3
17th Century
Pastor
And Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes, and an half
tribe, on the other side Jordan
Matthew Henry
On Joshua 14:1–5
17th Century
Minister
The Israelites must occupy the new conquests. Canaan would have been subdued in vain if it had not been inhabited. Yet not every man could go and s…