in the courts of the Lord’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes ¹  according to their clans.

The width of the court on the west side is to be seventy-five feet with hangings, with their ten posts and their ten bases.

All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands; ¹  their hooks are to be ²  silver, and their bases bronze.

All ¹  the utensils of the tabernacle used ²  in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze. ³ 

The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent.

Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon – a total of twenty-nine cities and their towns. ¹ 

Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah – a total of sixteen cities and their towns.

Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior – a total of nine cities and their towns.

Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah – a total of two cities and their towns.

Also included were the cities set apart for the tribe of Ephraim within Manasseh’s territory, along with their towns. ¹ 

Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; ¹  in all they had twelve cities and their towns. ² 

This was the land assigned to the tribe of Asher ¹  by its clans, including these cities and their towns.

Yiron, ¹  Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh. In all they had ²  nineteen cities and their towns.

This was the land assigned to the tribe of Dan ¹  by its clans, including these cities and their towns.

(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

They also lived in all the settlements that surrounded these towns as far as Baal. ¹  These were their settlements; they kept genealogical records.

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