Joshua 21 Bible Study Guide — Summary, Themes & Outline

Joshua 21 records the assignment of cities to the Levites, the one tribe that received no territorial inheritance. Forty-eight cities with pasturelands were given from the territories of the other tribes, including the six cities of refuge. The chapter ends with one of the most powerful statements in the Old Testament: not one word of all the good promises that Yahweh had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.