Misheal

The town carried in older lists as "Misheal" appears in UPDV under the form Mishal — a city in the territory of Asher that was later set apart as a Levitical city.

In Asher's allotment

Mishal is named when the fifth lot falls to Asher and the boundary is traced through the coastal-plain towns. "And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families. And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath" (Jos 19:24-26). Mishal sits in the run of names that closes the inland series before the boundary reaches the sea at Carmel.

A Levitical city out of Asher

When the Levites receive their cities, Mishal is one of those given from Asher's portion. "And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs" (Jos 21:30). The town and its surrounding pasturelands pass to Levitical use, joining the wider grant by which the priestly tribe is settled across all the others.