Cities

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Isaiah 13:16 OT

  Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

• Jeremiah 20:5 OT

  Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry…

• 1 Samuel 5:11 OT

  They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic…

• Jeremiah 52:6 OT

  In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Amos 4:6 OT

  “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

• Isaiah 17:9 OT

  In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

• Ezekiel 26:19 OT

  “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you;

• Judges 20:38 OT

  Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

• Judges 20:40 OT

  But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.

• Isaiah 1:7 OT

  Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

• Isaiah 25:2 OT

  For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

• Judges 9:45 OT

  Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.

• Proverbs 18:19 OT

  A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

• Jeremiah 1:18 OT

  For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

• Jeremiah 1:19 OT

  They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

• Hebrews 13:14 NT

  For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

• Song of Solomon 3:2 OT

  I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

• Song of Solomon 3:3 OT

  The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

• Revelation 11:2 NT

  Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

• Revelation 21:2 NT

  I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

• Revelation 22:19 NT

  If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

• Hebrews 11:16 NT

  But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

• Revelation 16:10 NT

  The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

• Revelation 17:18 NT

  The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”