Cities
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Cities’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 49–72 of 169 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Exodus 1:11 OT
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
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Exodus 1:14 OT
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
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Ezra 6:3 OT
In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits,…
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The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
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Psalms 122:3 OT
Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together,
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The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.
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Psalms 46:4 OT
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
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Psalms 137:1 OT
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
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Matthew 5:14 NT
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
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Luke 4:29 NT
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
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Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
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Genesis 11:2 OT
As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
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He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
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2 Kings 2:19 OT
The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”
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Psalms 48:2 OT
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
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Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
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The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
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Luke 14:21 NT
“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’
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All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
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It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the…
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I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
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Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”