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Joshua 21

Joshua 21:45

Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites · Joshua 21:1–45
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Translations

Modern
Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.
Traditional
There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Literal
Not a word failed of any good thing that YHWH had spoken to the house of Israel; everything came to pass.
Latin
Ne unum quidem verbum, quod illis præstiturum se esse promiserat, irritum fuit, sed rebus expleta sunt omnia.

Interlinear

Hebrew
English
Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.

Notes

Joshua 21:45

God had made Israel many good promises, and not one had failed. He kept his promise to give Israel possession of the land and to save them from their surrounding enemies.

Joshua 20:1–21:45

Before they fully divided the land, Joshua had to establish six cities of refuge and assign cities in which the Levites would live.

Joshua 13:1–21:45

  • As he had promised, God brought Israel into the land. Joshua then focused on dividing the land among Israel's tribes.

  • The tribal allowances made the covenant of the Israelites with God real. It showed the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Since God owned the land, giving it to the tribes was a gift. God gave them the land to live in and guided its distribution.

  • In these lists of tribal allowances, the author describes some borders in great detail, allowing them to be mapped. With others, they are less plainly defined.

Parallels

Numbers 35:1–8 1 Chronicles 6:54–81

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Ark of the Covenant Inheritance Joshua, Book of Judges, Book of Kohath, Kohathites Levitical Cities Priests and Levites Tribe of Dan

Topics

God: Faithfulness of Israel: Conquest of the Land The Providence of God is Exercised in Bringing his Words to Pass