Cities

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 3:5 OT

  All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition to a great many villages without walls.

• Psalms 125:2 OT

  As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

• Isaiah 33:16 OT

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• 2 Chronicles 11:5-10 OT

  Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah. He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam, Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah…

• 2 Chronicles 11:23 OT

  He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.

• Psalms 48:12 OT

  Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

• Psalms 48:13 OT

  Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

• Jeremiah 4:5 OT

  Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’

• Daniel 11:15 OT

  So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand.

• Numbers 35:2 OT

  “Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.

• Joshua 21:3 OT

  The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.

• Judges 18:29 OT

  They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.

• 1 Kings 16:24 OT

  He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

• Daniel 4:29 OT

  At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

• Daniel 4:30 OT

  The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

• Joshua 15:21 OT

  The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

• 1 Chronicles 2:22 OT

  Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

• Jeremiah 2:28 OT

  “But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

• Jonah 4:11 OT

  Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

• Nahum 3:8 OT

  Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

• Genesis 10:12 OT

  and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

• Deuteronomy 6:10 OT

  It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,

• Jonah 3:3 OT

  So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

• Genesis 10:11 OT

  Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,