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Teachers in Every Town
Commentators explain that God's command to place Levites in cities throughout Israel was a strategic plan. This dispersion ensured that all tribes had access to religious instruction in God's law, preventing any part of the nation from being 'left to sit in darkness.' The Levites served as the learned, spiritual guides for their communities.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 35:2
18th Century
Theologian
Suburbs - Rather, “pasture-grounds,” required for their large cattle, for their sheep and goats, and for all their beasts whatever they migh…
Charles Ellicott
On Numbers 35:2
19th Century
Bishop
Cities to dwell in.— The object of the dispersion of the Levites throughout the other tribes seems to have been primarily…
John Gill
On Numbers 35:2
17th Century
Pastor
Command the children of Israel
All the tribes of them; it is not a bare instruction that is given them, much less a …
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Matthew Henry
On Numbers 35:1–8
17th Century
Minister
The cities of the priests and Levites were not only to accommodate them but to place them, as religious teachers, in several parts of the land. For…