Cities
First mention of -- Ge 4:17. Designed for habitations -- Ps 107:7,36. Often built to perpetuate a name -- Ge 11:4. Often founded and enlarged by blood and rapine -- Mic 3:10; Hab 2:12. Built Of brick and slime. -- Ge 11:3. Of stone and wood. -- Ps 102:14; Eze 26:12. Of brick and mortar. -- Ex 1:11,14. On solid foundations. -- Ezr 6:3; Re 21:14. With compactness. -- Ps 122:3. Often of a square form. -- Re 21:16. Beside rivers. -- Ps 46:4; 137:1. On hills. -- Mt 5:14; Lu 4:29; Re 17:9. In plains. -- Ge 11:2,4; 13:12. In desert places. -- 2Ch 8:4; Ps 107:35,36. In pleasant situations. -- 2Ki 2:19; Ps 48:2. Arranged in streets and lanes -- Nu 22:39; Zec 8:5; Lu 14:21. Entered through gates -- Ge 34:24; Ne 13:19,22. Surrounded with walls -- De 1:28; 3:5. Often fortified by nature -- Ps 125:2; Isa 33:16. Often fortified by art -- 2Ch 11:5-10,23; Ps 48:12,13; Jer 4:5; Da 11:15. Sometimes had suburbs -- Nu 35:2; Jos 21:3. Were called for The family of the founder. -- Ge 4:17; Jdj 18:29. The proprietor of the land. -- 1Ki 16:24. The country in which built. -- Da 4:29,30. Numerous -- Jos 15:21; 1Ch 2:22; Jer 2:28. Densely inhabited -- Jon 4:11; Na 3:8. Often great and goodly -- Ge 10:12; De 6:10; Da 4:30; Jon 3:3. Often of great antiquity -- Ge 10:11,12. Often insignificant -- Ge 19:20; Ec 9:14. Different kinds of Royal. -- Nu 21:26; Jos 10:2; 2Sa 12:26. Fenced. -- Jos 10:20; Isa 36:1. Treasure. -- Ex 1:11. Commercial. -- Isa 23:11; Eze 27:3. Chariot. -- 2Ch 1:14; 9:25. Store. -- 2Ch 8:4,6. Levitical. -- Le 25:32,33; Nu 35:7,8. Refuge. -- Nu 35:6. Inhabitants of, called citizens -- Ac 21:39. Prosperity of, increased by commerce -- Ge 49:13; De 33:18,19; Eze 28:5. Artificial mode of supplying water to -- 2Ki 18:17; 20:20. Infested by dogs -- 1Ki 14:11; Ps 59:6,14. Under governors -- 2Ch 33:14; 2Co 11:32. Provided with judges -- De 16:18; 2Ch 19:5. Protected at night by watchmen -- Ps 127:1; Song 5:7; Isa 21:11. Furnished with stores -- 2Ch 11:11,12. Garrisoned in war -- 2Ch 17:2,19. Often had citadels -- Jdj 9:51. A great defence to a country -- 2Ch 11:5. Afforded refuge in times of danger -- Jer 8:14-16. Often deserted on the approach of an enemy -- 1Sa 31:7; Jer 4:20. Were frequently Stormed. -- Jos 8:3-7; Jdj 9:44. Besieged. -- De 28:52; 2Ki 19:24,25. Pillaged. -- Isa 13:16; Jer 20:5. Wasted by pestilence. -- 1Sa 5:11. Wasted by famine. -- Jer 52:6; Am 4:6. Depopulated. -- Isa 17:9; Eze 26:19. Burned. -- Jdj 20:38,40; Isa 1:7. Made heaps of ruins. -- Isa 25:2. Razed and sown with salt. -- Jdj 9:45. Difficulty of taking, alluded to -- Pr 18:19; Jer 1:18,19. Perishable nature of -- Heb 13:14. Illustrative of Saints. -- Mt 5:14. Visible church. -- Song 3:2,3; Re 11:2. Church triumphant. -- Re 21:2; 22:19. Heavenly inheritance. -- Heb 11:16. The apostasy. -- Re 16:10; 17:18. Riches. -- Pr 10:15.