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Strong's Number G4172 matches the Greek πόλις (polis),
which occurs 162 times in 153 verses
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Page 3 / 4 (Act 16:14–Rev 21:21)
A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.
Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews
So they came to appease them, and escorting them from prison, they urged them to leave town.
But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason’s house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed when he saw that the city was full of idols.
“For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”
So the city was filled with confusion, and they rushed all together into the amphitheater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.
When the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “People of Ephesus! What person is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great[fn] Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?
“except that in every town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.
When our time had come to an end, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach to pray,
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.
Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”
He continued, “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of our ancestral law. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.
“They didn’t find me arguing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city.
So the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium with the military commanders and prominent men of the city. When Festus gave the command, Paul was brought in.
“In all the synagogues I often punished them and tried to make them blaspheme. Since I was terribly enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.
With still more difficulty we sailed along the coast and came to a place called Fair Havens near the city of Lasea.
Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.[fn]
On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, and dangers among false brothers;
In Damascus, a ruler[fn] under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to arrest me.
The reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders in every town.
For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
But they now desire a better place — a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels, a festive gathering,
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to extinction,[fn] making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions,[fn] and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
“The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God — the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God — and my new name.
“But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations,[fn] and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
At that moment a violent earthquake took place, a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake. The survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Then the press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press up to the horses’ bridles for about 180 miles.[fn]
The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations[fn] fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; he gave her the cup filled with the wine of his fierce anger.
“And the woman you saw is the great city that has royal power over the kings of the earth.”
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying,
Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.
saying,
Woe, woe, the great city,
dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet,
adorned with gold, jewels, and pearls;
as they watched the smoke from her burning and kept crying out, “Who was like the great city? ”
They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning,
Woe, woe, the great city,
where all those who have ships on the sea
became rich from her wealth;
for in a single hour she was destroyed.
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,
In this way, Babylon the great city
will be thrown down violently
and never be found again.
They came up across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the encampment of the saints, the beloved city. Then fire came down from heaven[fn] and consumed them.
I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
He then carried me away in the Spirit[fn] to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
The city wall had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb were on the foundations.
The one who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 stadia.[fn] Its length, width, and height are equal.
The building material of its wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold clear as glass.
The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of jewel: the first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
3. Act 16:14–Rev 21:21
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