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Joshua 21:25

Joshua 21:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Aner and Bileam are mentioned in Chronicles, instead of Tanach and Gath-rimmon (). Either the cities had at this time different names, or afterwards their names were changed; or the Levites, being by some means dispossessed of the cities first assigned them, received others from their brethren. A careful examination of the marginal references will discover other variations of this kind, which may be accounted for in the same manner.

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