38 Bible Verses about Town

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1 Samuel 23:7

When Saul was told that David went to Keilah, Saul said: God has delivered him into my hands. He has trapped himself by going into a city which has a gate with a double door held shut by a bar.

Joshua 19:50

According to the word of Jehovah they gave him the city that he requested, Timnathserah on mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and lived there.

Mark 6:10

He said: When someone invites you to enter into a house, stay there until you leave.

Acts 16:4

They went through the towns and delivered to the believers the rules decided upon by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem. They told them to obey those rules.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.

Judges 8:14-16

He captured a young man from Succoth and questioned him. He described the princes of Succoth, and the elders and even seventy-seven men. Then Gideon went to the men of Sukkoth and said: Remember when you refused to help me? You said that you could not give any food to my exhausted army because I had not captured Zebah and Zalmunna yet. Well, here they are! Then he took the elders of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of his city will send for him. They will take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die.

Deuteronomy 21:3

When it is determined which city is nearest the body, the elders from that city must choose a heifer that has never been put to work and never worn a yoke.

Deuteronomy 22:15

The girl's father and her mother must present evidence of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

Deuteronomy 25:7

If the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say: My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

Ruth 4:2

Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said: Be seated here. And they took their seats.

1 Samuel 16:4

Samuel did what Jehovah told him. When he came to Bethlehem the elders of the city trembled at his coming. They greeted him and said: May peace be with you.

Ezra 10:14

So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people. Let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned away from us, and this has been done.

Luke 18:2-3

There was a judge in a city that did not fear God and had no respect for man. There was a widow in that same city. She went to him asking for legal protection from her adversary.

Ruth 4:10

In addition, Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, becomes my wife. This will keep the property in the dead man's family, and his family line will continue among his people in his hometown. Today you are witnesses to this.

Luke 2:3-4

So every one went to his hometown to register. Joseph came from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea to be counted and taxed. He went to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

Leviticus 25:33

If any Levite buys back a house, in the jubilee the purchased house in the city will be released. This is because the houses in the Levite cities are their property among the Israelites.

Numbers 35:4-5

The land around the cities that you give the Levites will extend fifteen hundred feet from the city wall. Outside the city measure off three thousand feet on the east side, three thousand feet on the south side, three thousand feet on the west side, and three thousand feet on the north side, with the city in the center. This will be their pastureland around the city.

Deuteronomy 16:5

You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns Jehovah your God is giving you.

1 Samuel 9:10-14

Saul told his servant: That is a good idea! Come on let us go. They went to the city where the man of God was. Going up the hill to the city they met girls coming out to get water. They asked the girls: Is the seer here? The girls answered: He is there ahead of you. Hurry! He just went into the city today since the people are offering a sacrifice at the worship site.read more.
As you go into the city, you can find him before he goes to the worship site to eat. The people will not eat until he comes. He blesses the sacrifice. Then those who are invited may eat. You should be able to find him now. Saul and his servant went to the city. Samuel was coming toward them as they entered. He was on his way to the worship site.

1 Samuel 20:29

David said to me: 'Please let me go, since our family must make a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to attend. If I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table.'

2 Chronicles 28:25

And in each city of Judah, he made places of worship to sacrifice to other gods. He angered Jehovah the God of his ancestors.

Ruth 1:19

The two of them traveled to Bethlehem. When they arrived at Bethlehem the whole town was excited because of them. The women said: Is this Naomi?

1 Samuel 4:13

Eli was very worried about the Ark of the Covenant. He sat besides the road staring. When the man spread the news throughout the town everyone cried out in fear.

Matthew 13:54

He went to his own country and taught in the synagogue. They were astonished and asked where this man got this wisdom and these mighty works.

Luke 4:31

Next he traveled to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. There he taught them on the Sabbath day.

John 4:5

He arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar. It is near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Deuteronomy 13:13

some worthless men have gone out from among you and have mislead the inhabitants of their city, saying: Let us go and serve other gods you have not known.

Judges 6:30

They said to Joash: Bring your son here. We will kill him! He tore down the altar to Baal and cut down the symbol of Asherah!

2 Kings 2:23

Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: Get out of here, baldy!

2 Chronicles 30:10

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

Matthew 23:34

Look! I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will torture and kill. Others you will torment and persecute from city to city.

Deuteronomy 13:15

strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.

Isaiah 25:2

You have made the city a heap, the mighty city a ruin. The palace of aliens is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.

2 Kings 3:19

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.

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Acts 19:35

The city recorder quieted the crowd. He said: You men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

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Leviticus 25:29-30

If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time.

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