¹⁵ and Kattath, Nahalal, ^(A)Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages.

Conquests in Northern Canaan

11 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he ^(A)sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

⁶ He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

¹⁵ And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”

Naomi and Ruth Return

¹⁹ So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, ^(A)the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

³⁰ Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of ^(A)Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.

^34 (A)And to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands, ³⁵ Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities;

^20 (A)the king of Shimron-meron, one; ^(B)the king of Achshaph, one;