He called that place Bethel, ¹  although the former name of the town was Luz.

It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver. ¹ 

The ruined town ¹  is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight. ² 

So they went up to the town. As they were heading for the middle of the town, Samuel was coming in their direction ¹  to go up to the high place.

The destroyer will come against every town. Not one town will escape. The towns in the valley will be destroyed. The cities on the high plain will be laid waste. ¹  I, the Lord, have spoken! ² 

“Very well,” he replied, ¹  “I will grant this request too ²  and will not overthrow ³  the town you mentioned.

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

When they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

Run there quickly, ¹  for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.) ² 

Here I am, standing by the spring, ¹  and the daughters of the people ²  who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards ¹  from the town wall.

When he looked up and saw the traveler ¹  in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

The old man said, “Everything is just fine! ¹  I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.”

They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

The men of Tekoa worked on the section adjacent to them, but their town leaders ¹  would not assist ²  with the work of their master. ³ 

I will reestablish honest judges as in former times, wise advisers as in earlier days. ¹  Then you will be called, ‘The Just City, Faithful Town.’”

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

Ariel is as good as dead ¹  – Ariel, the town David besieged! ²  Keep observing your annual rituals, celebrate your festivals on schedule. ³ 

The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead ¹  – he who starts ²  a town by unjust deeds.

“You must measure ¹  from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, ²  and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. ³  This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.