25 occurrences

'Cities' in the Bible

You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

Verse ConceptsSpies

Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCitydoubt, results ofdiscouragementHeart, HumanLargenessPessimismSkyHuman EmotionFaint HeartednessGiantsLosing CourageWhere To?Sky, Figurative Use

We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.

Verse ConceptsGod Forbidding

We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesSixties

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

Verse ConceptsCityGatesVillagesWallsCitiesOutside The CityWalled TownsUnguarded

But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:

Verse ConceptsHillsHalf Of DistrictsArnonReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

Verse ConceptsOther WivesRules About Young People

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

Verse ConceptsThe SunThree CitiesBeyond Jordan

that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyManslaughterNot HatingUnintentional

It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessBuilding CitiesThe Promised LandCities In IsraelGod Gave The Land

Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCityLargenessComparisonsCrossing Into The Promised Landisrael

If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,

When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Will Kill The Peoples

you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

Verse ConceptsHighwayThree Cities

as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

Verse ConceptsThree Cities

if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

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

But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingJudged As Murderers

Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Verse ConceptsFar From Here

But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMassacresbreathingbreathgenocide

then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:

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πολίτης 
Polites 
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