The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests.

So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.

The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites ¹  forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.