Nahallal

Nahallal was a town in the territory given to the tribe of Zebulun, one of the small places that fill the land lists in Joshua. It sits in a list of twelve cities that includes Bethlehem, and it turns up again among the towns set aside for the Levites, where the spelling shifts to Nahalal. In Judges the same town appears as Nahalol, and there the text records that Zebulun did not drive out its Canaanite people, who stayed on and paid tribute. So a single name carries three spellings and three small facts: a place on the map, a place for the Levites, and a place left unfinished.

3 verses

Joshua

Joshua 19:15

And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

Joshua 21:35

Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.

Judges

Judges 1:30

Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Pasture, a city in Zebulun on the border of Issachar (Josh. 19:15), the same as Nahalol (Judg. 1:30). It was given to the Levites. It has been by some identified with Malul in the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles from Nazareth.

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Dictionary entries from Easton's Bible Dictionary. Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.