Concordance

“City” in the Bible

1075 verses contain “city” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 4:17 And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.
Genesis 10:12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
Genesis 11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face…
Genesis 11:5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Genesis 13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Genesis 18:24 What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?
Genesis 18:26 So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
Genesis 18:28 suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
Genesis 19:1 Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
Genesis 19:4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
Genesis 19:12 Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Genesis 19:14 …Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was…
Genesis 19:15 At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Genesis 19:16 … and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for…
Genesis 19:25 Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
Genesis 19:29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Genesis 23:10 Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
Genesis 23:18 to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
Genesis 26:33 So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
Genesis 28:19 and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
Genesis 33:18 After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
Genesis 34:20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
Genesis 34:24 All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
Genesis 34:25 …eon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every…
Genesis 34:27 Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
Genesis 34:28 They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
Genesis 35:5 As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
Genesis 36:32 Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.
Genesis 36:35 When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
Genesis 36:39 When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
Genesis 41:35 Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
Genesis 41:48 …l the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around…
Genesis 44:4 They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
Genesis 44:13 Then they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.
Exodus 1:11 So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
Exodus 9:29 Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that…
Exodus 9:33 Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
Leviticus 14:40 he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
Leviticus 14:41 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
Leviticus 14:45 It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:53 Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
Leviticus 25:29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
Leviticus 25:30 …med by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the…
Leviticus 25:32 As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
Leviticus 25:33 …er belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are…
Leviticus 25:34 But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
Leviticus 26:25 …he vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the…
Leviticus 26:31 I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
Leviticus 26:33 But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
Numbers 13:19 Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
Numbers 13:28 Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 20:16 and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
Numbers 21:2 So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”
Numbers 21:3 And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
Numbers 21:25 Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
Numbers 21:26 Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
Numbers 21:27 That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
Numbers 21:28 For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
Numbers 22:36 When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.
Numbers 24:19 A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
Numbers 31:10 Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
Numbers 32:16 Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
Numbers 32:17 …ce. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the…
Numbers 32:24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
Numbers 32:26 Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
Numbers 32:33 …and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding…
Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
Numbers 32:38 as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.
Numbers 35:2 “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
Numbers 35:3 The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
Numbers 35:4 The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
Numbers 35:5 You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the…
Numbers 35:6 Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other…
Numbers 35:7 The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.
Numbers 35:8 The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger…
Numbers 35:11 designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
Numbers 35:12 You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
Numbers 35:13 The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
Numbers 35:14 Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
Numbers 35:15 These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Numbers 35:25 … avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed…
Numbers 35:26 But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
Numbers 35:27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed
Numbers 35:28 because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
Numbers 35:32 Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
Deuteronomy 1:22 Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
Deuteronomy 1:28 … saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim…
Deuteronomy 2:34 At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
Deuteronomy 2:35 We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all…
Deuteronomy 2:37 …es, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had…
Deuteronomy 3:4 At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3:5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
Deuteronomy 3:6 We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
Deuteronomy 3:10 all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.
Deuteronomy 3:12 …Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its…
Deuteronomy 3:19 But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,
Deuteronomy 4:41 Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east
Deuteronomy 4:42 to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
Deuteronomy 6:10 …acob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not…
Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Deuteronomy 13:12 If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
Deuteronomy 13:13 that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
Deuteronomy 13:15 you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.
Deuteronomy 13:16 …in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of…
Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
Deuteronomy 19:2 then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:3 … as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these…
Deuteronomy 19:4 …situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm…
Deuteronomy 19:5 …strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his…
Deuteronomy 19:7 This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
Deuteronomy 19:9 …ng in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these…
Deuteronomy 19:11 If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
Deuteronomy 19:12 the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.
Deuteronomy 20:10 When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
Deuteronomy 20:12 But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
Deuteronomy 20:14 …the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your…
Deuteronomy 20:15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Deuteronomy 20:16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
Deuteronomy 20:19 When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat…
Deuteronomy 20:20 But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
Deuteronomy 21:2 your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
Deuteronomy 21:3 Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
Deuteronomy 21:6 Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
Deuteronomy 21:19 his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 22:15 Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
Deuteronomy 22:17 … virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city…
Deuteronomy 22:18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
Deuteronomy 22:21 …to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s…
Deuteronomy 22:23 If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
Deuteronomy 22:24 you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has…
Deuteronomy 25:7 …arry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing…
Deuteronomy 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
Deuteronomy 28:3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:52 They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout…
Deuteronomy 34:3 the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
Joshua 2:15 Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
Joshua 3:16 … water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
Joshua 6:3 March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.
Joshua 6:4 Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.
Joshua 6:5 …ve all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the…
Joshua 6:7 And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
Joshua 6:11 So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.
Joshua 6:14 So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
Joshua 6:15 Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.
Joshua 6:16 After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!

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