Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard.

People say wonderful things about you, O city of God. (Selah)

He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

(A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.

Saul proceeded to the city of Amalek, where he set an ambush in the wadi.

But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live.

Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.

The wise person can scale the city of the mighty and bring down the stronghold in which they trust.

How deserted will that once-famous city be, that city that was once filled with joy!

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

That is why those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established!

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

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

When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.