'Towns' in the Bible
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you.
“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
“If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the Lord your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violating His covenant
When a Levite leaves one of your towns where he lives in Israel and wants to go to the place the Lord chooses,
“When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.
refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, to the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean with its towns, Ibleam with its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor with its towns; the inhabitants of En-dor with its towns, the inhabitants of Taanach with its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo with its towns—the three cities of Naphath.
But the descendants of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who inhabit the valley area have iron chariots, both at Beth-shean with its towns and in the Jezreel Valley.”
So the men left, went through the land, and described it by towns in a document of seven sections. They returned to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
He had 30 sons who rode on 30 donkeys. They had 30 towns in Gilead, which are called Jair’s Villages to this day.
Now David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
to those in Racal, in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, and in the towns of the Kenites;
Some time later, David inquired of the Lord: “Should I go to one of the towns of Judah?”The Lord answered him, “Go.”Then David asked, “Where should I go?”“To Hebron,” the Lord replied.
In addition, David brought the men who were with him, each one with his household, and they settled in the towns near Hebron.
Hiram king of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish—King Solomon gave Hiram 20 towns in the land of Galilee.
So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are still called today.
The Israelites secretly did what was not right against the Lord their God. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.
Segub fathered Jair, who possessed 23 towns in the land of Gilead.
But Geshur and Aram captured Jair’s Villages along with Kenath and its villages—60 towns. All these were the sons of Machir father of Gilead.
They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its towns, and throughout the pasturelands of Sharon.
From the tribe of Benjamin they were given Geba and its pasturelands, Alemeth and its pasturelands, and Anathoth and its pasturelands. They had 13 towns in all among their families.
To the rest of the Kohathites, 10 towns from half the tribe of Manasseh were assigned by lot.
The Gershomites were assigned 13 towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan according to their families.
The Merarites were assigned by lot 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun according to their families.
So the Israelites gave these towns and their pasturelands to the Levites.
They assigned by lot the towns named above from the tribes of the Judahites, Simeonites, and Benjaminites.
Some of the families of the Kohathites were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages. The sons of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.
The first to live in their towns on their own property again were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
They taught throughout Judah, having the book of the Lord’s instruction with them. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.
and carried out great works in the towns of Judah. He had fighting men, brave warriors, in Jerusalem.
The priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and some of the people settled in their towns, and the rest of Israel settled in their towns.
By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people gathered together in Jerusalem.
Let our leaders represent the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each town, in order to avert the fierce anger of our God concerning this matter.”
So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, temple singers, some of the people, temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns.When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, >
So they proclaimed and spread this news throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, just as it is written.”
We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and oil. A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.
Now the leaders of the people stayed in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots for one out of ten to come and live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine-tenths remained in their towns.
These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—
Mount Zion is glad.The towns of Judah rejoicebecause of Your judgments.
Zion hears and is glad,and the towns of Judah rejoicebecause of Your judgments, Lord.
Make Moab a salt marsh,for she will run away;her towns will become a desolation,without inhabitant.
Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, those far and near.
Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs,residents of Moab!Be like a dovethat nests inside the mouth of a cave.
The towns have been captured,and the strongholds seized.In that day the heart of Moab’s warriorswill be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
There will be another area 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles wide for the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns to live in.
Then Jesus went to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.
When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
When Jesus had finished giving orders to His 12 disciples, He moved on from there to teach and preach in their towns.
Then He proceeded to denounce the towns where most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent:
When Jesus heard about it, He withdrew from there by boat to a remote place to be alone. When the crowds heard this, they followed Him on foot from the towns.
but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.
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.
But He said to them, “I must proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.”
While He was in one of the towns, a man was there who had a serious skin disease all over him. He saw Jesus, fell facedown, and begged Him: “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
“‘Well done, good slave!’ he told him. ‘Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, have authority over 10 towns.’
“So he said to him, ‘You will be over five towns.’
In addition, a large group came together from the towns surrounding Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
Philip appeared in Azotus, and he was traveling and evangelizing all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian towns called Lystra and Derbe, and to the surrounding countryside.
As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for them to observe.