485 occurrences in 12 translations

'Cities' in the Bible

His kingdom began in the region of Shinar with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.

Verse ConceptsBabylonThe Kingdom Of Others

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Verse ConceptsTents

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Verse ConceptsMemoriesRememberingAbraham, Testing And VictoryAbraham, Calling And LifeDivine RemembranceDestruction Of CitiesGod Remembering His PeopleBringing People Out Of Other Places

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine Protection, Examples OfTerror Of Godterrorism

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

Verse ConceptsThriftGathering Food

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsTownReal EstateReversion Of Things

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Verse ConceptsProperty, Land

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceWar As God's JudgmentGod Executes VengeanceCovenant Made At SinaiGod's Sword

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

Verse ConceptsFaintingRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuarySmellsArchaeologyAromasDestruction Of CitiesCities Under AttackRefreshing God

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel

And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?

Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesLargenessGiantsStrong Nations

But the tithe of the Israelites, which they present as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘They shall have no inheritance among the children of Israel.’”

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingFood For Priests DefinedNo Earthly InheritanceThe Tithe For LevitesTithes And Offering

And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

Verse ConceptsVowsTo Be Given Into One's Hands

And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

Verse ConceptsCastlesTentsDestruction Of CitiesCities Under AttackBurning Cities

And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallySheepfoldsStock Keeping

But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityWarriors

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelStock Keeping

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:

Verse ConceptsStaying Put

And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesStock Keeping

And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

Verse ConceptsWalls

And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesNorth, South, East And West

And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesDeath penaltyRefugeesSanctuaryManslaughterTypes Of ChristAsylumSix ThingsForties

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

Verse ConceptsForties

And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.

Verse ConceptsAccording To PeopleFew PeopleMany In Israel

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

Verse ConceptsMurderRefugeManslaughterAccidental KillingsUnintentional

And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeStandingMan AvengingDeath Of A Family Member

And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.

Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

Verse ConceptsThree CitiesBeyond Jordan

These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

Verse ConceptsManslaughterStrangersAccidental KillingsForeigners Included In The LawUnintentionalAliens

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

Verse ConceptsSpies

Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCitydoubt, results ofdiscouragementHeart, HumanLargenessPessimismSkyHuman EmotionFaint HeartednessGiantsLosing CourageWhere To?Sky, Figurative Use

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

Verse ConceptsGod Forbidding

And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesSixties

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

Verse ConceptsCityGatesVillagesWallsCitiesOutside The CityWalled TownsUnguarded

But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

Verse ConceptsHillsHalf Of DistrictsArnonReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

Verse ConceptsOther WivesRules About Young People

Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

Verse ConceptsThe SunThree CitiesBeyond Jordan

That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

These cities are Bezer, in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.

And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessBuilding CitiesThe Promised LandCities In IsraelGod Gave The Land

Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCityLargenessComparisonsCrossing Into The Promised Landisrael

"You may slaughter and eat as much meat as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God, when he provides for you in all your cities. Both ritually unqualified and qualified people may eat it as they would gazelle and deer.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Animals Having A SoulDeerEating Meat

"You won't be allowed to eat your tithe of grain, new wine, oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, your voluntary offerings that you pledged, your free-will offerings, and the works of your hands in your own cities.

Verse ConceptsGrainWineTithes And Offering

You'll eat only in the presence of the LORD your God at the place that he will choose you, your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the descendant of Levi who is in your cities. Rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God in everything you undertake.

Verse ConceptsEating Before GodEating Drinking And Rejoicing

"If the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish his name is distant from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and your flock what the LORD has provided for you, as he instructed you. You may consume them in your cities as much as you please.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

some evil people have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, saying, "Let's go and serve other gods" (whom you have not known before).

Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfSatan, As The Enemy Of GodTownAbominations, Judgments OfApostatesUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

"You must not eat any carcass. But you may give it to the alien in your cities so he may eat it or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."

Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

so the descendants of Levi who have no tribal allotment as you do foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities may come, eat, and be satisfied. That way, the LORD your God shall bless you in everything you do."

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

"If there should be a poor man among your relatives in one of the cities of the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your poor relative.

Verse ConceptsAlms, Good DeedsHardness Of HeartOppression, Nature OfSympathyUnkindnessGiving, Advice OnDo Not Be StingyPeople Without MercyHelping The PoorHelping Those In Need

In your cities both the unclean and the clean together are to eat together, as the gazelle and the deer.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

"You must not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your cities that the LORD your God is about to give you.

Verse ConceptsTown

Rejoice in your festival you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi, and foreigners, orphans, and widows, who live in your cities.

Verse ConceptsWidowsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And Rejoicing

"Appoint judges and civil servants according to your tribes in all your cities that the LORD your God is about to give you, so they may judge the people impartially.

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsCivic RighteousnessJudgesTownMagistratesAdministrationJudging RightlyMan AppointingAppointments

"You may discover that a man or woman living in one of your cities that the LORD your God is about to give you has done evil in the eyes of the LORD your God by transgressing his covenant.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfBreaking The Covenant

'And when the Levite cometh from one of thy cities out of all Israel, where he hath sojourned, and hath come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah doth choose,

When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Will Kill The Peoples

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Verse ConceptsHighwayThree Cities

You are to determine the distances and divide the land the Lord your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.

Verse ConceptsAsylumMaking RoadsDividing Into Three Things

As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

Verse ConceptsThree Cities

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

Verse ConceptsThree CitiesWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsThe Need To Love God

But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingJudged As Murderers

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Verse ConceptsFar From Here

But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMassacresbreathingbreathgenocide

Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

Let him live among you wherever he chooses in any of your cities that he likes. Don't mistreat him."

Verse ConceptsTroubling Groups Of People

"When you have finished your harvest, reserve the tithe in the third year (the year of the tithe), and give the entire tithe to the descendants of Levi, to the foreigners, to the orphans, and to the widows, so they may eat and be satisfied in your cities.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsCropsForeignersethics, socialBereaved, Care ForSatisfactionWidowsAliensTithes And Offering

They'll besiege all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you have trusted collapse throughout the land. Indeed, they will besiege all your cities, which the LORD your God gave you."

Verse ConceptsFortressesFortificationsCityWallsWalled TownsNations Attacking Israel

He will withhold from each of them the flesh of his sons that he is eating since there will be nothing left on account of the siege and distress with which your enemy will oppress you in all your cities.

Verse ConceptsCannibalism

She will eat her afterbirth and her newborn children secretly since there will be nothing left on account of the siege and distress with which your enemy will oppress you in your cities."

Verse ConceptsCannibalismActing In SecretBirth

Gather the people the men, women, children, and the foreigners that live in your cities so they may hear and fear the LORD your God, and so they may be careful to obey the words contained in this Law.

Verse ConceptsForeignersCovenant breakersdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleMale And FemaleOutsidersAliens, Believers DutyAssembling IsraelForeigners Included Among The PeopleKeep The Commandments!Aliens

And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekCities In Israel

That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessFearing Other People

And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSmitingThose God Gave Into Their HandsEnemy Attacks

And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.

Verse ConceptsCityCarnageExterminationSurvivors Of The Nations

And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.

Verse ConceptsVillagesAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationConquestNo SurvivorsExtermination

And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationExtermination

But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyConflagrationsBurning Cities

And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsExtermination

And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.

Verse ConceptsHillsTribes Of IsraelAnnihilationGiants

And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;

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