7 Accordingly they gave a sacred status to Keʹdesh*+ in Galʹi·lee* in the mountainous region of Naphʹta·li, and Sheʹchem+ in the mountainous region of Eʹphra·im, and Kirʹi·ath-arʹba,+ that is to say, Heʹbron, in the mountainous region of Judah.

9 However, the obscureness will not be as when the land* had stress, as at the former time when one treated with contempt the land of Zebʹu·lun and the land of Naphʹta·li+ and when at the later time one caused [it] to be honored+—the way by the sea, in the region of the Jordan, Galʹi·lee* of the nations.*+