05.22.2015 Old Testament: 1Ch 6.66–81

To read the Bible in a year, read First Chronicles 6–7 on May 22, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

No place on the Earth, could the Levites say that a region belonged to them, but the Lord scattered them among the tribal lands of Israel, as Ezra wrote,

Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath were given cities as their territory from the tribe of Ephraim…And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its common-lands and Bileam with its common-lands, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. From the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh the sons of Gershon were given Golan in Bashan with its common-lands and Ashtaroth with its common-lands. And from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its common-lands, Daberath with its common-lands…And from the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its common-lands, Abdon with its common-lands…And from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its common-lands…From the tribe of Zebulun the rest of the children of Merari were given Rimmon with its common-lands…from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its common-lands…from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its common-lands… (1 Chronicles 6.66–81). 

Therefore, the tribe of Levi was not without places to live, but look at any Bible map, and you will notice that no large section of land has the name Levi. They lived in the world, but the world was not their permanent home because the Lord was their inheritance, even as it is with Christians.