9 occurrences

'Cities' in the Bible

He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth-jair to this day.

Verse ConceptsBackThirtyGiven Names To This DayMultitudes Of Donkeys

While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?

Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreArnon

He struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.

Verse ConceptsConquestTwentyThose Subjected To People

Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSix YearsJudging Israel

The sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.

Verse ConceptsCivil War

From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were numbered, 26,000 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were numbered, 700 choice men.

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

Therefore, they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them while those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's Back

The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesBoth Men And Animals Killed

The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they carried away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

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