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Place

Kirjathaim

city in Naphtali

A city in Naphtali assigned to the Gershonite Levites, also known as Kartan.

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Who or what is this?

in Naphtali is listed in 1 Chronicles 6:76 among the Levitical cities given to the sons of Gershom from the tribe of Naphtali, identified with the Kartan of 21:32. As a Levitical city it was set apart with pastureland for the priestly tribe who had no territorial inheritance of their own. No narrative events in the historical books are attached to this northern site, and it is known solely from the Levitical city lists that document the distribution of the tribe of Levi across Israel's tribal territories.

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