'Town' in the Bible

So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.

Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.

Gilead is a lawless town; it is polluted by bloodshed.

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

The sovereign Lord says this: "The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel."

Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.

So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

Therefore you will give parting giftsOn behalf of Moresheth-gath (Micah’s home);The houses of Achzib (Place of Deceit) will become a deceptionTo the kings of Israel.

Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.

The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

“Because you have looted many nations,All the remainder of the peoples will loot you—Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

“For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them,Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,To the town and all its inhabitants.

And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.

Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the Lord,

This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.

And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.

And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.

For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets, that He will be called a Nazarene.

Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

and leaving Nazareth He went and settled at Capernaum, a town by the Lake on the frontiers of Zebulun and Naphtali,

You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.

Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region.

So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own town.

Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.

And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.

I assure you: It will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Now when Jesus realized what they were thinking, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and no town or house divided against itself will stand.

He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

Saying to them, Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them loose and come with them to me.

And when he came into Jerusalem, all the town was moved, saying, Who is this?

And he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.

Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.

But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.'

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.

And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.

Now, while they were going, some of the watchmen came into the town and gave news to the chief priests of all the things which had taken place.

The whole town was assembled at the door,

"Let's go to the neighboring town," he replied, "so I can preach there, too, because that's why I came."

Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news, with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly. But He was out in deserted places, and they would come to Him from everywhere.

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

Jesus went out from there and *came into His hometown; and His disciples *followed Him.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”

And He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave town.

Any place that does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet as a testimony against them [breaking all ties with them because they rejected My message].”

And enter wherever He might--village or town or hamlet--they laid their sick in the open places, and entreated Him to let them touch were it but the tassel of His robe; and all, whoever touched Him, were restored to health.

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

They came to Jericho; and as He was leaving that town--Himself and His disciples and a great crowd--Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus)

And said to them, Go into the little town opposite: and when you come to it, you will see a young ass with a cord round his neck, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose, and come back with him.

And every evening he went out of the town.

And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him;

And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover.

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

In those days Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah

So everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.

And Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David,

For this day in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord (the Messiah).

When they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”

And He said, “Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.

They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff.

Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath.

Next morning, at daybreak, He left the town and went away to a solitary place; but the people flocked out to find Him, and, coming to the place where He was, they endeavoured to detain Him that He might not leave them.

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

Soon afterward He was on His way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with Him.

Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.

And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of fragrant oil

Soon afterward He was traveling from one town and village to another, preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him,

As a large crowd was gathering, and people were flocking to Him from every town, He said in a parable:

When He got out on land, a demon-possessed man from the town met Him. For a long time he had worn no clothes and did not stay in a house but in the tombs.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

“Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And off he went, proclaiming throughout the town all that Jesus had done for him.

If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus all that they had done. He took them along and withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.