SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:16
a Aín con sus ejidos, a Juta con sus ejidos, y a Bet-semes con sus ejidos; nueve villas de estas dos tribus.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. And Ain with her suburbs , etc.] (See Gill on “ Joshua 15:32”); and Juttah with her suburbs ; (see Gill on “ Joshua 15:55”); [and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs ; which is not mentioned among the cities of Judah, ( Joshua 15:21-63); only as in the borders of it, ( Joshua 21:10); and perhaps is the same Bethshemesh to which the ark was directed by the Philistines from Ashdod, ( 1 Samuel 6:9,12); in it formerly was a temple dedicated to the sun, from whence it had its name: nine cities out of those two tribes ; and they seem all but one, which is Ain, to be of the tribe of Judah, and that originally belonged to it; and as that tribe had the largest number of cities in its lot, the more were given out of it to the Levites, according to a rule prescribed, ( Numbers 35:8).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-42 - By mixing the Levites with the other tribes, they were made to see tha the eyes of all Israel were upon them, and therefore it was their concern to walk so that their ministry might not be blamed. Every trib had its share of Levites' cities. Thus did God graciously provide for keeping up religion among them, and that they might have the word in all parts of the land. Yet, blessed be God, we have the gospel mor diffused amongst us. (Jos 21:43-45)
Original Hebrew
ואת 853 עין 5871 ואת 853 מגרשׁה 4054 ואת 853 יטה 3194 ואת 853 מגרשׁה 4054 את 853 בית שׁמשׁ 1053 ואת 853 מגרשׁה 4054 ערים 5892 תשׁע 8672 מאת 853 שׁני 8147 השׁבטים 7626 האלה׃ 428
