Nibshan, the city of Salt, and En Gedi – a total of six cities and their towns.

Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba – a total of twelve cities and their towns.

Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen – a total of thirteen cities and their towns,

Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan – a total of four cities and their towns,

Umah, Aphek, and Rehob. In all they had ¹  twenty-two cities and their towns.

Their settlements also included Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan – five towns.

(But the city’s land and nearby towns were allotted to Caleb son of Jephunneh.)

On the border of Manasseh’s territory were Beth-Shean ¹  and its surrounding towns, Taanach and its surrounding towns, Megiddo ²  and its surrounding towns, and Dor and its surrounding towns. The descendants of Joseph, Israel’s son, lived here.

Mount Zion rejoices; the towns ¹  of Judah are happy, ²  because of your acts of judgment. ³ 

Zion hears and rejoices, the towns ¹  of Judah are happy, because of your judgments, O Lord.

So a strong nation will extol you; the towns of ¹  powerful nations will fear you.

They raped ¹  women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

“Instruct the Israelites to give ¹  the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites ²  will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt ¹  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. ² 

The men of Manasseh did not conquer Beth Shan, Taanach, or their surrounding towns. Nor did they conquer the people living in Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo ¹  or their surrounding towns. ²  The Canaanites managed ³  to remain in those areas. ⁴ 

Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?

The priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel lived in their towns.

But the time is coming when I will send men against Moab who will empty it out. They will empty the towns of their people, then will lay those towns in ruins. ¹  I, the Lord, affirm it! ² 

The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them. ¹ 

The land allotted to the tribe of Gad by its clans included these cities and their towns. ¹