Cities] Fourtie eight in number, Josh. 21. vers. 41. In one of these Cities for the most part was the Tabernacle placed, whither the Priests and Levites came to minister, as their course required; and that done, they returned to the Cities of their setled habitations and possessions; such were those which are mentioned, Leviticus 25:32. to dwell in] For them, their wives, and children, and servants, yet not for them onely; (though for them chiefely) for a Citie cannot well be furnished without men of severall Arts and Occupations, which might live among the Levites, and be so farre partakers with them, as that they might take their houses by way of Mortgage, and hold them (if the Levites did not redeeme them) untill the yeare of Jubilee. See Annot. on Leviticus 25:33.