Joshua 21

¹Then the heads of the fathers ’ houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers ’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel .

²And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan , The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in , along with their pasturelands for our livestock .

³So by command of the Lord the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance .

⁴The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites . So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah , Simeon , and Benjamin , thirteen cities .

⁵And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim , from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh , ten cities .

⁶The Gershonites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar , from the tribe of Asher , from the tribe of Naphtali , and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan , thirteen cities .

⁷The Merarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben , the tribe of Gad , and the tribe of Zebulun , twelve cities .

⁸These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites , as the Lord had commanded through Moses .

⁹Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name ,

¹⁰which went to the descendants of Aaron , one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi ; since the lot fell to them first .

¹¹They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak ), that is Hebron , in the hill country of Judah , along with the pasturelands around it.

¹²But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession .

¹³And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron , the city of refuge for the manslayer , with its pasturelands , Libnah with its pasturelands ,

¹⁴Jattir with its pasturelands , Eshtemoa with its pasturelands ,

¹⁵Holon with its pasturelands , Debir with its pasturelands ,

¹⁶Ain with its pasturelands , Juttah with its pasturelands , Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands — nine cities out of these two tribes ;

¹⁷then out of the tribe of Benjamin , Gibeon with its pasturelands , Geba with its pasturelands ,

¹⁸Anathoth with its pasturelands , and Almon with its pasturelands — four cities .

¹⁹The cities of the descendants of Aaron , the priests , were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands .

²⁰As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites , the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim .

²¹To them were given Shechem , the city of refuge for the manslayer , with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim , Gezer with its pasturelands ,

²²Kibzaim with its pasturelands , Beth-horon with its pasturelands — four cities ;

²³and out of the tribe of Dan , Elteke with its pasturelands , Gibbethon with its pasturelands ,

²⁴Aijalon with its pasturelands , Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands — four cities ;

²⁵and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh , Taanach with its pasturelands , and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands — two cities .

²⁶The cities of the clans of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all with their pasturelands .

²⁷And to the Gershonites , one of the clans of the Levites , were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh , Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands , the city of refuge for the manslayer , and Beeshterah with its pasturelands — two cities ;

²⁸and out of the tribe of Issachar , Kishion with its pasturelands , Daberath with its pasturelands ,

²⁹Jarmuth with its pasturelands , En-gannim with its pasturelands — four cities ;

³⁰and out of the tribe of Asher , Mishal with its pasturelands , Abdon with its pasturelands ,

³¹Helkath with its pasturelands , and Rehob with its pasturelands — four cities ;

³²and out of the tribe of Naphtali , Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands , the city of refuge for the manslayer , Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands , and Kartan with its pasturelands — three cities .

³³The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands .

³⁴And to the rest of the Levites , the Merarite clans , were given out of the tribe of Zebulun , Jokneam with its pasturelands , Kartah with its pasturelands ,

³⁵Dimnah with its pasturelands , Nahalal with its pasturelands — four cities ;

³⁶and out of the tribe of Reuben , Bezer with its pasturelands , Jahaz with its pasturelands ,

³⁷Kedemoth with its pasturelands , and Mephaath with its pasturelands — four cities ;

³⁸and out of the tribe of Gad , Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands , the city of refuge for the manslayer , Mahanaim with its pasturelands ,

³⁹Heshbon with its pasturelands , Jazer with its pasturelands — four cities in all.

⁴⁰As for the cities of the several Merarite clans , that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites , those allotted to them were in all twelve cities .

⁴¹The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands .

⁴²These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities .

⁴³Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers . And they took possession of it, and they settled there.

⁴⁴And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers . Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands .

⁴⁵Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed ; all came to pass .