translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOS

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “came out for.”


text: Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Aaron, from the Kohathite clans, from the sons of Levi.”


text: The words “they assigned” are supplied for clarification (also in vv. 23, 25 ).


text: The name “Gath Rimmon” is problematic here, for it appears in the preceding list of Danite cities. The LXX reads “Iebatha”; 1 Chr 6:55 HT ( 6:70 ET) reads “Bileam.” Most modern translations retain the name “Gath Rimmon,” however.


text: The words “they assigned” and “the following cities” are supplied for clarification (also in v. 34 ).


label: NET textual note

text: 21:36-37 are accidentally omitted from a number of significant Hebrew mss . They are, however, found in some Hebrew mss , the LXX and Vulgate.


text: Heb “in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel.”


text: Heb “these cities were city [by] city, and its grazing areas [were] around it; so [it was] for all these cities.”


text: Heb “which he had sworn to give to their fathers.”


text: Or “possessed.”


text: Heb “gave them rest all around.”


text: Heb “according to all he swore to their fathers.”


text: Heb “not a man stood from before them from all their enemies.”


text: Heb “the house of Israel.” Cf. NCV “the Israelites”; TEV “the people of Israel”; CEV, NLT “Israel.”


text: Heb “not a word from all the good word which the Lord spoke to the house of Israel fell; the whole came to pass.”