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.