16 occurrences

'Cities' in the Bible

In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Evil ThingsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of Satan's WorksUseless LabourOne's DeedsAbandoning Idols

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsDestructionDestruction Of Cities

And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of StrongholdsCities Under AttackPeople Appalled

therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,

Verse ConceptsCities Under Attack

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;

Verse ConceptsCovering The EarthEmpty CitiesIn The Heart Of The Sea

And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Verse ConceptsCities Under Attack

The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities'shall go into captivity.

Verse ConceptsMemphisYoung People SufferingKilling Will Happen

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementEmpty CitiesLand Becoming Empty

therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyCities Under AttackAbandoning ThingsThe Mountains Of Israel

and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded;

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredInhabitationGod Multipling PeopleRebuilding JerusalemRebirth Of IsraelValley Of Dry Bones

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded.

Verse ConceptsBuilding CitiesInhabitationBeing Cleansed From Sin

And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheEdenInhabitation

As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsFestivals Observed

And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;

Verse ConceptsShieldsJavelinsSeven Years

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