'Towns' in the Bible
But Geshur and Aram took 60 towns from Gilead, including Havvoth-jair and Kenath, along with their villages. All these were descendants of Machir, who fathered Gilead.
From the tribe of Benjamin were allotted Geba with its surrounding suburbs, Alemeth with its surrounding suburbs, and Anathoth with its surrounding suburbs. All their towns allotted to their families totaled thirteen.
Ten towns were allocated to the rest of the descendants of Kohath by lot out of the family of the tribe, that is, the half-tribe of Manasseh.
To the descendants of Gershom according to their families were allotted 13 towns in Bashan from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh.
The descendants of Merari were allotted 12 towns according to their families from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
So the people of Israel gave the descendants of Levi the towns with their surrounding suburbs,
allocating these towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
A few of the families of Kohath's descendants had towns of their territory allotted from the tribe of Ephraim.
Their possessions and settlements included Bethel and its towns, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its towns to the west, Shechem and its towns as far as Ayyah and its towns
along the borders of the descendants of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the descendants of Israel's son Joseph.
Elpaal's descendants included Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod, along with its towns),
The first to settle on their own property in their own towns of Israel were priests, descendants of Levi, and the Temple Servants.
After this, David defeated and subdued the Philistines, and then took possession of Gath and its towns from Philistine control.