Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
Rebellious
Bad city
Bible References
Rebellious
Luke 23:2
"We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king."
Acts 24:5
For we have found this man Paul a source of mischief and a disturber of the peace among all the Jews throughout the Empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Hold yourselves aloof from every form of evil.
1 Peter 2:13
Submit, for the Lord's sake, to every authority set up by man, whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler,
Bad city
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!