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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 48:2Arranged 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; Jud 18:29- The proprietor of the land
- 1Ki 16:24- The country in which built
- Da 4:29,30Numerous - 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 35:6Inhabitants 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; So 5:7; Isa 21:11
Furnished with stores - 2Ch 11:11,12
Garrisoned in war - 2Ch 17:2,19
Often had citadels - Jud 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; Jud 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
- Jud 20:38,40; Isa 1:7- Made heaps of ruins
- Isa 25:2- Razed and sown with salt
- Jud 9:45Difficulty 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
- So 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
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