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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE
CHRONICLES
CHAPTER 11
  14 For the Levites left their asuburbs and their bpossession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had ccast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:

Footnotes
14a
IE the open land surrounding the forty-eight Levite cities.
Lev. 25: 34.
  34 But the afield of the bsuburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
Num. 35: 2 (2-7).
  2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the aLevites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites bsuburbs for the cities round about them.
b
Josh. 21: 41 (1-3, 41).
  41 All the cities of the aLevites within the bpossession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
c
2 Chr. 13: 9 (9-10).
  9 Have ye not acast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bbullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.