26 Bible Verses about Cities Under Attack

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

"When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

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

But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.

And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.

and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities.

And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

and you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop up all springs of water and ruin every good piece of land with stones."

And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands.

In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.

therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.

therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,

so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.

All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,

The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the LORD of hosts.

A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!-- a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.'"

and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there."

on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;