7 occurrences

'Town' in the Bible

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?

Verse ConceptsTrumpetCalamityGod Appointed AfflictionsTremblingTrumpets For SignallingGod Can Harm PeopleWisdomNatural Disasters

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.

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalHarvestRainWeather, As God's JudgmentTwo To Four MonthsVariety Of Form

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.

Verse ConceptsNot Returning To GodCities Under AttackDrinking WaterTwo Or Three

For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsTen PeopleOne HundredA Thousand PeopleNumbers Reducing

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

Verse ConceptsCityGod DestroyingDestruction Of Strongholds

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.

Verse ConceptsGod As A WarriorGod Hating ThingsGod Opposes The Proud

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.

Verse ConceptsPagansKilled With The SwordDeath Of Office HoldersExile In ProspectUnclean Things

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