Cities of the Levites
1 Then the heads of the fathers’housesof theLevites came near toEleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’housesof the tribes of the children of Israel.
2 And they spoke to them atShiloh in the land of Canaan, saying,“TheLordcommanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for our livestock.”
3 So the children of Israel gave to the Levites from their inheritance, at the commandment of theLord, these cities and their common-lands:
4 Now the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. Andthe children of Aaron the priest,whowereof the Levites,had thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of Simeon, and from the tribe of Benjamin.
5 The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.
6 Andthe children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
7 The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.
8 And the children of Israel gave these cities with their common-lands by lot to the Levites,as theLordhad commanded by the hand of Moses.
9 So they gave from the tribe of the children of Judah and from the tribe of the children of Simeon these cities which are designated by name,
10 which were for the children of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites,whowereof the children of Levi; for the lot was theirs first.
11 And they gave them Kirjath Arba (Arbawasthe father ofAnak),whichisHebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it.
12 Butthe fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
13 Thusto the children of Aaron the priest they gaveHebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer),Libnah with its common-land,
14 Jattir with its common-land,Eshtemoa with its common-land,
15 Holon with its common-land,Debir with its common-land,
16 Ain with its common-land,Juttah with its common-land, andBeth Shemesh with its common-land: nine cities from those two tribes;
17 and from the tribe of Benjamin,Gibeon with its common-land,Geba with its common-land,
18 Anathoth with its common-land, andAlmon with its common-land: four cities.
19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,werethirteen cities with their common-lands.
20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, the rest of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim.
21 For they gave themShechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer),Gezer with its common-land,
22 Kibzaim with its common-land, and Beth Horon with its common-land: four cities;
23 and from the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with its common-land, Gibbethon with its common-land,
24 Aijalon with its common-land,andGath Rimmon with its common-land: four cities;
25 and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with its common-land and Gath Rimmon with its common-land: two cities.
26 All the ten cities with their common-lands were for the rest of the families of the children of Kohath.
27 Also to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, from theotherhalf-tribe of Manasseh,theygaveGolan in Bashan with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), and Be Eshterah with its common-land: two cities;
28 and from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its common-land, Daberath with its common-land,
29 Jarmuth with its common-land,andEn Gannim with its common-land: four cities;
30 and from the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its common-land, Abdon with its common-land,
31 Helkath with its common-land, and Rehob with its common-land: four cities;
32 and from the tribe of Naphtali,Kedesh in Galilee with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Hammoth Dor with its common-land, and Kartan with its common-land: three cities.
33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their familieswerethirteen cities with their common-lands.
34 And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its common-land, Kartah with its common-land,
35 Dimnah with its common-land,andNahalal with its common-land: four cities;
36 and from the tribe of Reuben,Bezer with its common-land, Jahaz with its common-land,
37 Kedemoth with its common-land, and Mephaath with its common-land: four cities;
38 and from the tribe of Gad,Ramoth in Gilead with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Mahanaim with its common-land,
39 Heshbon with its common-land,andJazer with its common-land: four cities in all.
40 So all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites, werebytheir lot twelve cities.
41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israelwereforty-eight cities with their common-lands.
42 Every one of these cities had its common-land surrounding it; thuswereall these cities.
The Promise Fulfilled
43 So theLordgave to Israelall the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and theytook possession of it and dwelt in it.
44 TheLordgave themrest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. Andnot a man of all their enemies stood against them; theLorddelivered all their enemies into their hand.
45 Not a word failed of any good thing which theLordhad spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.