CITIES

Passages on this topic · 45

• Genesis 4:17

  Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

• Genesis 10:10

  The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

• Genesis 10:11

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

• Genesis 10:12

  and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

• Genesis 41:48

  He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

• Exodus 1:11

  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

• Numbers 32:36

  Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

• Numbers 35:3

  They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.

• Numbers 35:4

  “The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

• Numbers 35:5

  You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the suburbs of their cities.

• Deuteronomy 9:1

  Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

• Joshua 10:2

  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.

• Joshua 10:20

  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,

• Joshua 14:4

  For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for their property.

• Joshua 14:12

  Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”

• 1 Samuel 27:5

  David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”

• 2 Samuel 12:26

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

• 1 Kings 9:19

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

• 1 Chronicles 11:7

  David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.

• 2 Chronicles 1:14

  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 8:4

  He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.

• 2 Chronicles 8:5

  Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

• 2 Chronicles 8:6

  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 dominion.

• 2 Chronicles 9:25

  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 11:10

  Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

• 2 Chronicles 11:11

  He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.

• 2 Chronicles 11:12

  He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

• 2 Chronicles 16:4

  Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

• 2 Chronicles 17:2

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 17:12

  Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 17:19

  These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 21:3

  Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

• Nehemiah 3:9

  Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

• Nehemiah 3:12

  Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.

• Nehemiah 3:17

  After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

• Nehemiah 3:18

  After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.

• Nehemiah 7:2

  I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

• Isaiah 23:11

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

• Ezekiel 17:4

  He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.

• Ezekiel 27:3

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

• Acts 19:35

  When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

• Hebrews 11:10

  For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

• Hebrews 11:16

  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.

• Hebrews 12:22

  But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

• Hebrews 13:14

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