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 121–144 of 169 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
-
The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’
-
Psalms 59:6 OT
They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
-
Psalms 59:14 OT
At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
-
Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in…
-
In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
-
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
-
He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
-
Psalms 127:1 OT
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
-
The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
-
Isaiah 21:11 OT
The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
-
He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.
-
He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
-
He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
-
These were those who waited on the king, in addition to those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
-
Judges 9:51 OT
But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
-
Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
-
“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. We looked…
-
When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and…
-
Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
-
Joshua 8:3-7 OT
So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night. He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city.…
-
Judges 9:44 OT
Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.
-
They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
-
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
-
Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.