Excerpt from Some Further Practical Studies in the History and Biography of the Old Testament: Comprising the Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel Appointment of Cities of Refuge. True idea of these cities. Abuse of sanctuary in medieval times. Apportionment of land to Levites. Strange incident of tribes across Jordan. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.