26 Bible Verses about Cities Under Attack

He who cannot control his own spirit (life) is as helpless as a city without walls, open to trouble.

When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender.

A wise man attacks the city of the mighty, and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.

who made the world like a desert and tore down its cities and did not let his prisoners go home?'

Do not spare anyone's life in the cities of these nations Jehovah your God is giving you as your property.

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. His roaring terrified the residents of the land.

I will make your cities deserted and ruin your sacred places. I will no longer accept the soothing aroma from your sacrifices.

I will remove your (godess) Astarte from your midst. I will destroy your cities.

Egypt will become the most desolate country in the world! Egypt's cities will lie in ruins. They will be ruined more than other cities.

You will conquer all their beautiful fortified cities. You will cut down all their fruit trees, stop all their springs, and ruin all their fertile fields by covering them with stones.

They destroyed their cities. As they passed by a fertile field, every Israelite would throw a stone on it until finally all the fields were covered with stones. They also stopped up the springs and cut down the fruit trees. At last only the capital city of Kir Heres was left. The slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

The fortified city stands desolate, abandoned settlements, forsaken like the desert. There the calves will graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

Jehovah helped us capture every town from the Arnon River Gorge north to the boundary of Gilead. This included the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge.

When that time comes, the Hebrew language will be spoken in five Egyptian cities. The people there will take their oaths in the name of Jehovah of Hosts. One of the cities will be called: City of Destruction.

therefore, I am going to deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its cities which are on its frontiers, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim,

'Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. The Lord Jehovah says to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities that have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations that are round about,

Two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water. They were not satisfied and yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

They burned the cities where the Midianites lived and all their settlements.

Young lions have roared at them. Young lions have turned the land into waste. The cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

The cities of Aroer (three places near Palestine) will be deserted forever. They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will make them afraid. The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom (sovereignty) from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel, proclaims Jehovah of Hosts.

The report has arrived. Listen! An incredible uproar is coming from the land of the north. Its army will destroy Judah's cities and make them homes for jackals.

If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.'

I will destroy the cities of your land, and I will throw down all your strongholds.

The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered Babylon the Great. He gave her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his anger (wrath).

If he retreats into a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city and drag it into a valley. Not even a pebble will be found there.

In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers;