Joshua 21:20

THE CITIES OF THE KOHATHITES (NOT PRIESTS)

"And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had their cities out of the lot of the tribe of Ephraim. And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs, and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities. and out of the tribe of Dan Elteke with its suburbs, Gibethon with its suburbs, Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities. And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities. All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs."

The mention of Gath-rimmon twice, in both Joshua 21:24-25, according to the scholars, is a copyist's error, the true reading being given in the list in Chronicles were we find "Bileam" (the Ibleam of Joshua 17:11) instead of the second Gath-rimmon here.[14]