28 occurrences

'City' in the Bible

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

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackArnonThose God Gave Into Their Hands

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

We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationDestruction Of Cities

Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known;

Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfSatan, As The Enemy Of GodTownAbominations, Judgments OfApostatesUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

Verse ConceptsTownExterminationApproval To KillBoth Men And Animals Killed

You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologySpoils Of WarBurning Citiesgenocide

then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Verse ConceptsTownMan Avenging

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMaking Peace With EnemiesSurrender

but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarRules About BootyFamily Conflict

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;

Verse ConceptsTownYokesHeifersUnused

and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterDislocatingUnused

All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

Verse ConceptsDislocating

then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

Verse ConceptsGatesComing To Gates

and they shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDishonouring ParentsChildren, UngratefulObstinate IndividualsAccused Of Drunkennessrebelliondrunkards

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf WillChildren, UngratefulFear Is DueInstructions About Stoning

then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

Verse ConceptsTownComing To Gatesvirginity

and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Verse ConceptsDistinctive Clothingaccusationsvirginity

The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

Verse ConceptsWhippingJudicial Punishment

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Verse ConceptsLaws Of Sexual UnionDeath Penalty For Sexual SinSex Before MarriageSexual Purityvirginity

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Verse ConceptsComing To GatesInstructions About Stoning

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;"

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

Verse ConceptsThe CountrysideGod Cursing

and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

Verse ConceptsPalm Trees

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