19 Bible Verses about Cities

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Matthew 11:23

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Acts 17:16

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

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Cities » General references to

Cities » Of refuge

Cities » Fortified

Cities » Often great and goodly

Cities » Designated as » Treasure

More verses: 2 Chronicles 8:4

Cities » Protected at night by watchmen

Cities » Numerous

Cities » Entered through gates

Cities » Different kinds of » Royal

Cities » Built » On hills

Luke 4:29

And they rose up and cast him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down the cliff.

Revelation 17:9

This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

Cities » Arranged in streets and lanes

Luke 14:21

So the servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in the poor and the maimed, the blind and the lame.'

Cities » Often fortified by art

Cities » Designated as » Royal

Cities » Under governors

2 Corinthians 11:32

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me,

Cities » Infested by dogs

Cities » Garrisoned in war

Cities » Different kinds of » Chariot

Cities » Provided with judges

Cities » Were frequently » Besieged

Cities » Prosperity of, increased by commerce

Cities » Different kinds of » Store

Cities » Illustrative of » The apostacy

Revelation 16:10

The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness; men gnawed their tongues in agony

Revelation 17:18

The woman that you saw is the great city which has dominion over the kings of the earth."

Cities » Illustrative of » Church triumphant

Revelation 22:19

and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are described in this book.

Cities » Built » In desert places

Cities » Surrounded with walls

Cities » Difficulty of taking, alluded to

Cities » Often insignificant

Cities » Often deserted on the approach of an enemy

Cities » Artificial mode of supplying water to

Cities » Were frequently » Pillaged

Cities » Built » Of stone and wood

Cities » Built » In plains

Cities » Different kinds of » Commercial

Cities » Were called after » The family of the founder

Cities » Were frequently » Depopulated

Cities » Were frequently » Burned

Cities » Built » On solid foundations

Revelation 21:14

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Cities » Figurative

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the joyful assembly

Cities » Different kinds of » Fenced

Cities » Were frequently » Stormed

Cities » Designated as » Merchant

Cities » Often founded and enlarged by blood and rapine

Cities » Often fortified by nature

Cities » Designed for habitations

Cities » Sometimes had suburbs

Cities » Built » In pleasant situations

Cities » Built » Of brick and mortar

Cities » Were frequently » Wasted by famine

Cities » Built » Beside rivers

Cities » Illustrative of » Visible church

Cities » Furnished with stores

Cities » Densely inhabited

Cities » Government of, by rulers

Cities » Designated as » Chariot

Cities » Suburbs of

Cities » Different kinds of » Levitical

Cities » Ancient

Cities » A great defence to a country

Cities » Built » Often of a square form

Revelation 21:16

The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal.

Cities » Afforded refuge in times of danger

Cities » Often of great antiquity

Cities » Were called after » The country in which built

Cities » Illustrative of » Riches

Cities » Were called after » The proprietor of the land

Cities » Were frequently » Wasted by pestilence

Cities » Illustrative of » Heavenly inheritance

Cities » Perishable nature of

Cities » Different kinds of » Refuge

Cities » Illustrative of » Saints

Cities » Built » Of brick and slime

Cities » Often built to perpetuate a name

Cities » First mention of

Cities » Different kinds of » Treasure

Cities » Were frequently » Razed and sown with salt

Cities » Were frequently » Made heaps of ruins

Cities » Built » With compactness

Cities » Often had citadels

Cities » Inhabitants of, called citizens

Acts 21:39

Paul replied, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; I beg you, let me speak to the people."

Cities » Town clerk of

Acts 19:35

And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

Fortresses » Places used as » Cities

Foundation » Laid for » Cities

Gates » Made to » Cities

Topics on Cities

Burning Cities

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Cities In Israel

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in one city, flee to another. For truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Cities of the plain

Luke 17:28-29

Likewise as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Destruction Of Cities

2 Peter 2:6

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter;

Entering Cities

Matthew 21:10

And when he entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"

Two Cities

Jude 1:7

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in strange flesh, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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