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