They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,

where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.

These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.

to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands,

To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,

Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,

Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands;

and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.

So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands.

They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands,

Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands,

and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.

To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands;

and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,

Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands;

out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,

Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands;

and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.

To the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands,

and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,

Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands;

and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,

Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the chief officer over them in time past; the Lord was with him.

In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”

And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and from the Lord our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.

Now, therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel,

Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.