'Towns' in the Bible

And the children of Israel went forward on their journey, and on the third day came to their towns. Now their towns were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.

He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.

But do you, without waiting, go after their army, attacking them from the back; do not let them get into their towns, for the Lord your God has given them into your hands.

Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.

And he took it, with its king and all its towns: and he put them to the sword, giving every person in it to the curse; all were put to death: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king.

And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.

As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.

And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

And all the towns of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, to the limits of the children of Ammon;

Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon;

And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land.

And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.

And their limit was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer before Rabbah;

This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places

And their limit was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-Jair, in Bashan, sixty towns;

And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir by their families.

Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said.

And the limit is marked out from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and out to the towns of Mount Ephron, as far as Baalah (which is Kiriath-jearim):

The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the direction of the limits of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur;

And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places.

And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places.

And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.

Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places;

From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.

Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit.

And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places.

And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places.

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places.

And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places.

Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two towns with their unwalled places.

And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.

Together with the towns marked out for the children of Ephraim in the heritage of Manasseh, all the towns with their unwalled places.

And the limit goes down to the stream Kanah, to the south of the stream: these towns were Ephraim's among the towns of Manasseh; Manasseh's limit was on the north side of the stream, ending at the sea:

In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, and Ibleam and its daughter-towns, and the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of En-dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of Taanach and its daughter-towns, and the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, that is, the three hills.

But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel.

So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh.

And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz

And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;

And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.

And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places;

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;

And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families.

And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, ending at Jordan; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

And the walled towns are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth

And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan.

The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.

All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.

From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name:

And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.

Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.

Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.

The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.

Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.

All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.

And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns.

Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.

And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.

Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.

Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns.

All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.

Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.