Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 6:67

67 And they gave unto them of the cities of refuge , Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs: they gave also Gezer with her suburbs.

Either the Ephraimiter: or rather the Children of Israel, as it is expressed v. 64. who gave part out of Ephraim, and part out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, as it here follows. But the Eph[illegible: 1+ letters]aimites could not give away any Cities belonging to the Manassites.

i. e. To the residue of the Kohathites last mentioned.

Or, the cities (i. e. the City: the plural Number used of one; of which frequent Examples have been given before, see ch. 7, 3, 12, 14.) of refuge. Or, cities, (the construct form being put for the absolute, of which there wants not Examples in the Hebrew Language) the City of refuge. As to the Names of these Cities, divers of them are differing from those Names which were given to them, Ios. 21. 15. Nor is it at all strange that the Names of Places should be changed in so many hundreds of years as were between Ioshua and this time. And to the Cities themselves, this is further to be observed, that they are dispersed among all the Tribes, partly that Iacobt Prophecy might be fulfilled concerning the scattering of Levi, Gen. 49. 7. and partly that every Tribe might have Teachers among them by whom they might be directed in, and quickned to the observation of Gods Laws, upon which their safety and happiness wholly depended.

Marginal references: Josh. 21. 21.