19 Bible Verses about Cities
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You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid.
and their design was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him;
And you, Capernaum, which are exalted even to heaven, shall go down even to hades; for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved within him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry.
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Cities » General references to
Cities » Of refuge
Cities » Fortified
Cities » Often great and goodly
Cities » Designated as » Treasure
Cities » Protected at night by watchmen
Cities » Numerous
Cities » Entered through gates
Cities » Different kinds of » Royal
Cities » Built » On hills
You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid.
and they arose and cast him out of the city, and led him even to the brow of the mountain on which the city was built, to precipitate him down.
Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits,
Cities » Arranged in streets and lanes
And the servant came and reported to his lord these things. Then the master of the house; being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and maimed, and blind, and lame.
Cities » Often fortified by art
Cities » Designated as » Royal
Cities » Under governors
In Damascus, the ethnarch, when Aretas was king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to take 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
And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened, and they gnawed their tongues from painful labor,
And the woman which you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.
Cities » Illustrative of » Church triumphant
And I saw the holy city New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and the holy city, 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
And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Cities » Figurative
but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.
for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.
for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come.
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
And the city was square, and its length equal to its breadth. And he measured the city with the rod, twelve thousand stadia [1372 English miles]; and the length and breadth and height of it 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
but now they seek a better, that is a heavenly [country]. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.
Cities » Perishable nature of
for we have not here a city that continues, but we seek that which is to come.
Cities » Different kinds of » Refuge
Cities » Illustrative of » Saints
You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid.
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
And Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of a not undistinguished city, I beg of you, permit me to speak to the people.
Cities » Town clerk of
And the clerk having stilled the multitude, said, Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana, and of the Jove descended [image]?
Fortresses » Places used as » Cities
Foundation » Laid for » Cities
Gates » Made to » Cities
Topics on Cities
Burning Cities
Matthew 22:7And the king was angry, and sent his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city.
Cities In Israel
Matthew 10:23And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another. For I tell you truly, that you will not finish the cities of Israel till the Son of man shall come.
Cities of the plain
Luke 17:28-29In like manner also as it was in the days of Lot; they eat, drank, bought, sold, planted, built;
Cities Under Attack
Revelation 16:19And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of his indignant wrath.
Destruction Of Cities
2 Peter 2:6and condemned Sodom and Gomorrah to be overthrown, reducing them to ashes, making them an example to those who should afterwards be wicked,
Entering Cities
Matthew 21:10And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was moved, saying, Who is this?
Two Cities
Jude 1:7as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.
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