Joshua 19:28   (Read all of Joshua 19)

It went to Abdon, Rehob, Hammon and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon.

Joshua 19:29   (Read all of Joshua 19)

The boundary then turned back toward Ramah and went to the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah and came out at the Mediterranean Sea in the region of Akzib,

Joshua 19:32   (Read all of Joshua 19)

The sixth lot came out for Naphtali according to its clans:

Joshua 19:34   (Read all of Joshua 19)

The boundary ran west through Aznoth Tabor and came out at Hukkok. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan on the east.

Joshua 19:38   (Read all of Joshua 19)

Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath and Beth Shemesh. There were nineteen towns and their villages.

Joshua 19:40   (Read all of Joshua 19)

The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans.

Joshua 19:41   (Read all of Joshua 19)

The territory of their inheritance included: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,

Joshua 19:42   (Read all of Joshua 19)

Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Joshua 19:47   (Read all of Joshua 19)

(When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)

Joshua 19:49   (Read all of Joshua 19)

When they had finished dividing the land into its allotted portions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,

Joshua 19:50   (Read all of Joshua 19)

as the Lord had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for-Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.

Joshua 19:51   (Read all of Joshua 19)

These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.

Joshua 20:1   (Read all of Joshua 20)

Then the Lord said to Joshua:

Joshua 20:3   (Read all of Joshua 20)

so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:4   (Read all of Joshua 20)

When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them.

Joshua 20:5   (Read all of Joshua 20)

If the avenger of blood comes in pursuit, the elders must not surrender the fugitive, because the fugitive killed their neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.

Joshua 20:6   (Read all of Joshua 20)

They are to stay in that city until they have stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then they may go back to their own home in the town from which they fled."

Joshua 20:7   (Read all of Joshua 20)

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 20:8   (Read all of Joshua 20)

East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 20:9   (Read all of Joshua 20)

Any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

Joshua 21:1   (Read all of Joshua 21)

Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel

Joshua 21:2   (Read all of Joshua 21)

at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, "The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock."

Joshua 21:3   (Read all of Joshua 21)

So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

Joshua 21:4   (Read all of Joshua 21)

The first lot came out for the Kohathites, according to their clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin.