'Towns' in the Bible

And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;

But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.

Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.

And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.

And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.

And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.

And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.

Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.