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1 Chronicles 6:67
They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler records the distribution of Levitical inheritance, specifying the Kohathite clans' allotment from the territory of Ephraim.
The words — עָרֵי הַמִּקְלָט (arei ha-miklat) = cities of refuge, and מִגְרָשֶׁיהָ (migra'sheha) = its pasturelands.
The thread — The allocation mirrors Joshua 21:21, which formally designates Shechem as a city of refuge with its surrounding fields, while Genesis 33:18 and 35:4 establish Shechem's earlier role in patriarchal history.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of the precise, land-based provision for the priestly tribe and the continuity of sacred geography from patriarchal settlement to Levitical administration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
Cross-references
- Joshua 21:21 they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,
- Genesis 33:18 After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
- Genesis 35:4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- Joshua 12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
- Joshua 16:3 Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.
- Joshua 16:10 But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.
- Joshua 20:7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- 1 Kings 9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.