34. The Merarite clans, the last of the Levites, received, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands,
35. Dimnah with its pasture lands, and Nahalal with its pasture lands: four cities.
36. Also, across the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, the city of refuge for homicides at Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands,
37. Kedemoth with its pasture lands, and Mephaath with its pasture lands: four cities.
38. From the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for homicides at Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
39. Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands: four cities in all.
40. The cities allotted to the Merarite clans, the last of the Levites, were therefore twelve in all.
41. Thus the total number of cities within the territory of the Israelites which, with their pasture lands, belonged to the Levites, was forty-eight.
42. With each and every one of these cities went the pasture lands round about it.
43. And so the Lord gave Israel the entire land he had sworn to their ancestors he would give them. Once they had taken possession of it, and dwelt in it,
44. the Lord gave them peace on every side, just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of their enemies could withstand them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their power.
45. Not a single word of the blessing that the Lord had promised to the house of Israel failed; it all came true.