Joshua 21:12 meaning and explanation
But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Joshua 21:12, Berean Standard Bible
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The book of Joshua is drawing the land settlement to a close, and here the narrator pauses over Hebron. The priests descended from Aaron had just received Hebron as a Levite city with its pasturelands, but verse 12 clarifies that the open fields and villages around it already belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh.
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