1 Chronicles 6:54-70 -

And these are their dwellings according to their enclosures in their territories , טִירוֹתָם means the settlements of whatever people in question, surrounded and protected by whatever fence or defence customary. For theirs was the lot is more intelligible with the addition of the word "first," supplied in Jos 31:10, i.e. theirs was the first lot. The whole drift of the present passage, with the remainder of the chapter, is made entirely plain by Numbers 35:1-8 and Joshua 21:1-10 . But the omission and the alteration of individual names of places occasion some delay. Our verse 55 is given somewhat more fully in Joshua 21:11 ; our verse 56 is identical with Joshua 21:12 ; and our verses 57-60 correspond substantially with Joshua 21:13-19 , but from this latter source we are glad to supply the two names Juttah and Gibeon, without which we cannot add up correctly the thirteen cities of verse 60. Also in Joshua, our Hilen, Ashan , and Alemsth appear as Holon , Ain , and Almon respectively, although in regard to the intermediate name of these three the places cannot be accepted as identical, for they are mentioned side by side in Joshua 19:7 and in 1 Chronicles 4:32 , but we must admit an error involved. Verse 56 (see Joshua 14:14 ; Joshua 21:12 ). Verse 61 seems to be an anticipation of verses 66-70, with which verses, if we incorporate it, we shall obtain substantially the same results as are found in Joshua 21:5 , Joshua 21:20-26 ; but again we are glad of the latter source to supply for us the two places, Eltekeh and Gibbethon, necessary to enable us to count up the ten cities of our verse 61, while our Jokmeam, Aner , and Bileam appear as probably the corrected readings of Kibzaim , Tanach , and Gath-rimmon respectively in Joshua. The sons of Kohath, left (verse 61), the residue (Authorized Version, verse 66), the remnant (verse 70), point (as above) to the non-priestly descendants in the Kohath line. Summing up, we see that the Kohathite priests had thirteen cities from the allotments of Judah and Simeon and Benjamin, and the Ko-hathite non-priests had ten, from Ephraim, Dan, and West Manasseh. One might detect in all this some germ of the more modern parochial system, so far at least as regards the distributed residence of a clerical and ministerial order, though not with sacred buildings similarly distributed.