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πόλεως — 234x G4172 πόλις
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Occurrences: 234 times in 222 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Genitive Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people [fn]from every quarter;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 -

Now at the [fn]breaking of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the [fn]punishment of the city.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - “Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called [fn]Zoar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when the women go out to draw water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and may it be that the [fn]maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 -

Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Then Pharaoh named Joseph [fn]Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of [fn]On, as a wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - So he gathered all the food of these seven years which happened in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities; he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 -

Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of [fn]On, bore to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his [fn]hands to Yahweh; and the [fn]thunder and the hail ceased, and rain [fn]no longer poured on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - then the priest shall command them to tear out the stones with the mark in them and throw them away [fn]at an unclean place outside the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - “And he shall have the house scraped all around [fn]inside, and they shall pour out the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - “He shall therefore tear down the house, its stones and its timbers and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:53 - “However, he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - ‘What, therefore, [fn]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale [fn]in the city of [fn]their possession [fn]reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 -

“For a fire went forth from Heshbon,

A flame from the town of Sihon;

It devoured Ar of Moab,

The [fn]dominant [fn]heights of the Arnon.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:19 -

“And one from Jacob shall have dominion,

And will make the survivor perish from the city.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 -

“And the pasture lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city [fn]outward [fn]one thousand cubits around.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - “You shall also measure outside the city on the east side [fn]two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, with the city in the center. This shall become theirs as pasture lands for the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - ‘But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his city of refuge, and the blood avenger kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and give him over into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - “And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and they shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - “And all the elders of that city [fn]who are nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him out to the elders of his city [fn]at the gateway of his hometown.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - “Then they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - “Then all the men of his city shall stone him, and he will die; so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:17 - and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But [fn]this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - “So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her, and she will die because she has committed a disgraceful act in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them, and they will die; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - “Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he stands and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - [fn]unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father's household.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - “And it will be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down [fn]beneath itself, and the people will go up every man [fn]straight ahead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - And he commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind [fn]it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - “And they will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.' So we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the [fn]city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - Now it happened that when the king of Ai saw it, the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - Then the men of Ai turned [fn]back and looked, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - But Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended. So they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - [fn]And the others came out from the city to meet them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, [fn]some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them down until [fn]there was no one remaining for him who survived or escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - And the border went down to the [fn]brook of Kanah, southward of the [fn]brook (these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh), and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the [fn]brook, and [fn]it ended at the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - These cities each had its surrounding pasture lands; thus it was with all these cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 -

Now the sons of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up from the city of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness of Judah which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - And the house of Joseph spied out Bethel (now the name of the city was formerly Luz).
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24 - Then the [fn]spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance to the city, and we will treat you with lovingkindness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that because he was too afraid of his father's household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 -

Then the men of the city arose early in the morning, and behold, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had been built.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal, and indeed, he has cut down the Asherah which was beside it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:16 - Then he took the elders of the city as well as thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he [fn]taught the men of Succoth a lesson.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - And he tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:30 -

Then Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, and his anger burned.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:35 - And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the city gate; and Abimelech and the people who were with him arose from the ambush.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - And Abimelech pursued him, and he fled before him; and many fell slain up to the entrance of the gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - So he took [fn]his people and divided them into three [fn]companies and lay in wait in the field; then he looked, and behold, the people were coming out from the city. So he arose against them and struck them down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44 - Then Abimelech and the [fn]company who was with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the city gate; but the other two [fn]companies rushed upon all who were in the field and struck them down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But there was a strong tower in the center of the city, and all the men and women with all the lords of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up on the roof of the tower.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,

“What is sweeter than honey?

And what is stronger than a lion?”

And he said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer,

You would not have found out my riddle.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” so they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. And they kept silent all night, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light; then we will kill him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - But Samson lay until midnight, and at midnight he arose and seized the doors of the city gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and brought them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - Then the man went from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to sojourn wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:29 - And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - Then they turned aside there in order to enter and to spend the night in Gibeah. So [fn]they entered and sat down in the open square of the city. Now no one was taking them into his house to spend the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 - And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 -

They were making their hearts merry, and behold, the men of the city, certain [fn]vile fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house that we may [fn]know him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed to the ground on that day 22,000 men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - So the sons of Benjamin went out to meet the people and were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike [fn]and slay some of the people as at other times, on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:32 - The sons of Benjamin said, “They are [fn]defeated before us, as at the first.” But the sons of Israel said, “Let us flee that we may draw them away from the city to the highways.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:38 - Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:40 - But the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, and Benjamin turned behind them; and behold, the whole city was going up in smoke to heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - Now the men of Israel returned to the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:2 - Then he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:3 -

Now that man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to [fn]Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to Yahweh there.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - Now it happened after they had brought it around, that the hand of Yahweh was against the city with very great confusion; and He struck the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:12 - Now the men who did not die were struck with tumors and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large [fn]stone on which they set the ark of Yahweh is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:11 -

As they were going up the slope to the city, they found young women going out to draw water and said to them, “Is the seer here?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:14 - So they went up to the city. As they came into the city, behold, Samuel was coming out to meet them to go up to the high place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:18 - Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Please tell me where the seer's house is.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:27 - As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Say to the young man that he might pass before us and pass onwards, but you remain standing now, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:4 - So Samuel did what Yahweh said and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, “Do you come in peace?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:13 - So he disguised his sanity in their sight and acted insanely in their hands and scribbled on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down into his beard.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:16 -

Then it happened as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:17 - And the men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David's servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:30 - Then he took the crown of [fn]their king from his head; and its weight was a [fn]talent of gold, and in it [fn]was a precious stone; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in a very great amount.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:2 - And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a case to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:12 - And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:24 -

Now behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar came up until all the people had finished passing from the city.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - “Such is not the case. But a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give him over alone, and I will go from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:22 - Then the woman came to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they were scattered from the city, each to his tent. Joab also returned to the king at Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:5 - And they crossed the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward Jazer.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:41 -

And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. Then Joab heard the sound of the trumpet and said, “Why is the sound of the city such an uproar?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 -

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 -

“When Your people go out to battle against [fn]their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh [fn]toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - and if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 -

Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon raised up to build the house of Yahweh, his own house, the [fn]Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24 -

As soon as Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, then he built the Millo.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18 - Then they arose from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - Now this was the reason why he [fn]raised his hand against the king: Solomon built the [fn]Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a [fn]jar, that I may drink.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 -

So these went out from the city, the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and the military force which followed them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11 -

So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13 - Then the two vile men came in and sat before him; and the vile men testified against him, against Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones and he died.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:26 - Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Joash the king's son;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:19 -

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the habitat of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land [fn]is unfruitful.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23 -

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:3 -

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor the voice of man, only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King [fn]Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had struck him with when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, “If this is your mind, then let no one escape or [fn]leave the city to go declare it in Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - And the one who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders, and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, all that you say to us we will do, we will not make any man king; do what is good in your sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me about this time tomorrow at Jezreel.” Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:9 - Now it happened in the morning that he went out and stood and said to all the people, “You are righteous; behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 -

Now it happened that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the [fn]guard and to the royal officers, “Come in, strike them down; let none come out.” And they struck them down with the edge of the sword; and the [fn]guard and the royal officers threw them out and went to the [fn]inner room of the house of Baal.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - And the sons of Israel [fn]did things secretly which were not right against Yahweh their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34 - ‘Indeed I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - “And I will add fifteen years to your [fn]life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.”'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he tore down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, which were on one's left at the city gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - Then he said, “What is this monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five [fn]of the king's advisers who were found in the city; and the [fn]scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:12 -

Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of [fn]Ir-nahash.

These are the men of Recah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:56 - but the fields of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:5 -

So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor of Egypt even to [fn]Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29 -

Now it happened as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - And the sons of Ammon came out and arranged themselves for battle at the entrance of the city. But the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2 - Then David took the crown of [fn]their king from his head; and he found it to weigh a [fn]talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in a very great amount.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:4 - However, David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim [fn]to the place he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2 -

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of the sons of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:34 -

“When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:38 - and if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 -

Then Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, because [fn]the places are holy where the ark of Yahweh has entered.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:25 - Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:20 -

Then King Hezekiah arose early and gathered the princes of the city and went up to the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:10 -

So the [fn]couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they were laughing at them to scorn and mocking them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:3 - and he took counsel with his commanders and his warriors to stop up the supply of water from the springs which were outside the city, and they helped him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:4 - So many people gathered and stopped up all the springs and the stream which flowed in the midst of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - And he strengthened himself and rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down and [fn]erected towers on it, and built another outside wall and strengthened the [fn]Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in great number.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30 - And it was Hezekiah who stopped the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:14 -

Afterwards, he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - He also removed the foreign gods and the [fn]idol from the house of Yahweh, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:8 -

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah an official of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:2 - And in [fn]Ecbatana in the fortress, which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found and there was written in it as follows:

“Memorandum

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - “Let our princes stand in for the whole assembly, and let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at set times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the burning anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away from us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the house of God, for the wall of the city and for the house to which I will go.” And the king granted them to me because the good hand of my God was on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 -

Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Spring Gate. He built it, covered it and made its doors stand with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at the king's garden as far as the steps that descend from the city of David.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:9 -

Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer,

and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second [fn]in command of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:37 -

At the Spring Gate they went directly up the steps of the city of David by the stairway of the wall above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 -

Now Mordecai came to know of all that had been done. And [fn]he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and cried out loudly and bitterly.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 - and let the robe and the horse be given over to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, and let them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor and lead him on horseback through the city square and call out before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - So Haman took the robe and the horse and clothed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square and called out before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:14 - So the king said that it should be done so; and a law was given in Susa, and Haman's 10 sons were hanged.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:8 - And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 -

“From the city men groan,

And the souls of the wounded cry out;

Yet God does not pay attention to such offense.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:7 -

“He laughs at the tumult of the city;

The shoutings of the driver he does not hear.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 -

May there be abundance of grain in the earth on top of the mountains;

May its fruit wave like the cedars of Lebanon;

And may those from the city blossom like vegetation of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 -

Every morning I will [fn]destroy all the wicked of the land,

To cut off from the city of Yahweh all the workers of iniquity.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:4 -

They wandered in the wilderness along the way of the wasteland;

They did not find an inhabited city.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:21 -

At the head of the noisy streets she calls out;

At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:8 -

And He revealed the [fn]defense of Judah.

In that day you looked to the weapons of the house of the forest,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13 -

Therefore this iniquity will be to you

Like a breach about to fall,

A bulge in a high wall,

Whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:14 -

Because the palace has been abandoned, the [fn]populated city forsaken.

[fn]Hill and watchtower have become caves forever,

A joy for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:19 - ‘Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13 - ‘Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35 - ‘Indeed I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - “And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:2 -

“For they call themselves after the holy city

And are supported by the God of Israel;

Yahweh of hosts is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:6 -

“A voice of rumbling from the city, a voice from the temple,

The voice of Yahweh who is paying recompense to His enemies.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 -

[fn]Return, O faithless sons,' declares Yahweh;

‘For I am a master to you,

And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,

And I will bring you to Zion.'

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 -

“But it will be, if you listen carefully to Me,” declares Yahweh, “to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:25 - then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes [fn]sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - ‘I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all the fruit of its labor, and all its precious things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away, and bring them to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8 -

“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?'

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:11 - Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, “A judgment of death for this man! For he has prophesied against this city as you have heard in your hearing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4 - “For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:6 - “So you shall go and read from the scroll, which you have written [fn]at my dictation, the words of Yahweh [fn]in the hearing of the people in the house of Yahweh on a fast day. And also you shall read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who come from their cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:4 - Now Jeremiah was still coming in and going out among the people; they had not yet put him in the prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - Then King Zedekiah gave commandment, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city had come to an end. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - But it happened that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men that were with him slaughtered them and cast them into the cistern.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - “He will also shatter the [fn]sacred pillars of [fn]Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:7 - Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were [fn]all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:13 - And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven [fn]of the king's advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 -

Kaph

My eyes fail because of tears;

My [fn]inmost being is greatly disturbed;

My [fn]heart is poured out on the earth

Because of the [fn]destruction of the daughter of my people,

When infants and nursing babies faint

In the open squares of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 -

Lamedh

They say to their mothers,

“Where is grain and wine?”

As they faint like a wounded man

In the open squares of the city,

As their life is poured out

On their mothers' bosom.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:51 -

My eyes deal severely with my soul

Because of all the daughters of my city.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - “Now as for you, get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and establish your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 -

Then He cried out in my hearing with a loud voice saying, “Draw near, [fn]O executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:23 - The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Now as for you, son of man, [fn]make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And [fn]make a signpost; [fn]make it at the head of the way to the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:9 - therefore, behold, I am going to open the flank of Moab by its cities, by its cities which are on its [fn]frontiers, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 -

“The choice men of [fn]On and of Pi-beseth

Will fall by the sword,

And [fn]the women will go into captivity.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:16 - “And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2 - In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and caused me to rest on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:6 -

“And you shall give the city possession of an area [fn]5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the contribution of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 -

“Now the prince shall have land on either side of the holy contribution and the city's possession of land, adjacent to the holy contribution and the city's possession of land, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:20 - “The whole contribution shall be 25,000 by 25,000 cubits; you shall contribute the holy contribution, a [fn]square, with the city's possession of land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21 -

“And the remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy contribution and of the city's possession of land; in front of the 25,000 cubits of the contribution toward the east border and westward in front of the 25,000 toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. And the holy contribution and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:22 - “And apart from the Levites' possession and the city's possession, which are in the middle of that which belongs to the prince, everything between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall be for the prince.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:30 -

“And these are the exits of the city: on the north side, 4,500 cubits by measurement.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:31 - “And the gates of the city shall be [fn]named for the tribes of Israel, three gates toward the north: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:35 - The city shall be [fn]18,000 cubits round about; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘[fn]Yahweh is there.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 -

They rush on the city;

They run on the wall;

They climb up into the houses;

They enter through the windows like a thief.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 -

Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of the city. And there he made a booth for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - “So should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many [fn]animals?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10 -

“Writhe and labor to give birth,

Daughter of Zion,

Like a woman in childbirth;

For now you will go out of the city,

Dwell in the field,

And go to Babylon.

There you will be delivered;

There Yahweh will redeem you

From the hand of your enemies.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8 -

“Because you have taken many nations as spoil,

All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil

Because of human bloodshed and violence [fn]done to the land,

To the town and all its inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:17 -

“For the violence [fn]done to Lebanon will cover you,

And the devastation of its beasts [fn]by which you terrified them,

Because of human bloodshed and violence [fn]done to the land,

To the town and all its inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:5 - ‘And the [fn]streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its [fn]streets.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - Indeed, I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city will go forth in exile, but those left of the people will not be cut off from the city.
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