Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
2 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “suburbs” →
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the LORD :
Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
