And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.