Cities

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Genesis 19:20 OT

  See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”

• Ecclesiastes 9:14 OT

  There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

• Numbers 21:26 OT

  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

• Joshua 10:2 OT

  they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

• 2 Samuel 12:26 OT

  Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

• Joshua 10:20 OT

  When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

• Isaiah 36:1 OT

  Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

• Isaiah 23:11 OT

  He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

• Ezekiel 27:3 OT

  and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord Yahweh says: “You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

• 2 Chronicles 1:14 OT

  Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 9:25 OT

  Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 8:6 OT

  and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his…

• Leviticus 25:32 OT

  “ ‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time.

• Leviticus 25:33 OT

  The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

• Numbers 35:7 OT

  All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.

• Numbers 35:8 OT

  Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his…

• Numbers 35:6 OT

  “The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

• Acts 21:39 NT

  But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

• Genesis 49:13 OT

  “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

• Deuteronomy 33:18 OT

  About Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.

• Deuteronomy 33:19 OT

  They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”

• Ezekiel 28:5 OT

  by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

• 2 Kings 18:17 OT

  The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which…

• 2 Kings 20:20 OT

  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?