'Marketplaces' in the Bible
Then Ben-hadad said to him, “I restore to you the cities that my father took from your father, and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, like my father set up in Samaria.”Ahab responded, “On the basis of this treaty, I release you.” So he made a treaty with him and released him.
Destruction is within her;Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.
At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.
Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.
“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:
greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people.
Wherever He would go, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch just the tassel of His robe. And everyone who touched it was made well.
And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
“Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.