Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">People say wonderful things about you,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">O city of God. (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">He allowed the hungry to settle there,p> <p class="poetry">and they established a city in which to live.p>

(A city by the name of Hamonah<n id="1" /> will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.&#8217;p>

The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.p>

Saul proceeded to the city<n id="1" /> of Amalek, where he set an ambush<n id="2" /> in the wadi.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">But David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the city of David).

<p class="bodytext">The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">They return in the evening;p> <p class="poetry">they growl<n id="1" /> like a dogp> <p class="poetry">and prowl around outside<n id="2" /> the city.p>

<p class="poetry">They return in the evening;p> <p class="poetry">they growl<n id="1" /> like a dogp> <p class="poetry">and prowl around outside<n id="2" /> the city.p>

<p class="poetry">They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road;p> <p class="poetry">they found no city in which to live.p>

<p class="poetry">He led them on a level road,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that they might find a city in which to live.p>

<p class="poetry">Better to be slow to anger<n id="1" /> than to be a mighty warrior,p> <p class="poetry">and one who controls his temper<n id="2" /> is better than<n id="3" /> one who captures a city.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The wise person<n id="1" /> can scale<n id="2" /> the city of the mightyp> <p class="poetry">and bring down the stronghold<n id="3" /> in which they trust.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">How deserted will that once-famous city<n id="1" /> be,p> <p class="poetry">that city that was once filled with<n id="2" /> joy!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he who starts<n id="2" /> a town by unjust deeds.p>

That is why those who speak in proverbs<n id="1" /> say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Come to Heshbon, let it be built.p> <p class="poetry">Let the city of Sihon be established!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;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,

<p class="bodytext">When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.