and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages.
When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”
So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”
Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.
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, Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities;
the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
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