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'Cities' in the Bible

And ye came near to me all of you, and said, We will send men before us, who shall examine the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and of the cities to which we shall come.

Verse ConceptsSpies

Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, They are a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim 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 every city, men, and women, and little ones: we let none escape.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

Only thou didst not approach the land of the children of Ammon, the whole border of the river Jabbok, nor the cities of the mountain, nor to whatsoever Jehovah our God had forbidden us.

Verse ConceptsGod Forbidding

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

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesSixties

All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many.

Verse ConceptsCityGatesVillagesWallsCitiesOutside The CityWalled TownsUnguarded

But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

all the cities of the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salchah and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

And this land we took in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;

Verse ConceptsHillsHalf Of DistrictsArnonReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Only your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, 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 separated three cities on this side the Jordan toward the sun-rising,

Verse ConceptsThe SunThree CitiesBeyond Jordan

that the manslayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not previously, that fleeing to one of these cities, he might live:

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into the land which he swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee: great and good cities which thou buildedst not,

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessBuilding CitiesThe Promised LandCities In IsraelGod Gave The Land

Hear, Israel! Thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to enter in to possess nations greater and mightier than thou, cities great and walled up to heaven,

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCityLargenessComparisonsCrossing Into The Promised Landisrael

If in one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee to dwell there, thou hearest, saying,

When Jehovah thy God hath cut off the nations whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou hast dispossessed 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 thyself in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.

Verse ConceptsHighwayThree Cities

as when he 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 iron slippeth from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

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

Verse ConceptsThree Cities

(if thou keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in his ways continually), then shalt thou add three cities more for thyself to these three,

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

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

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingJudged As Murderers

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that 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 peoples which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMassacresbreathingbreathgenocide

then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain;

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