Quotes about Cities
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
- Cicero
and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
- Genesis 10:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
- Genesis 13:12
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.
- Genesis 14:11
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
- Genesis 19:25
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 19:29
As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
- Genesis 35:5
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 41:35
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 1:11
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
- Leviticus 25:32
But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
- Leviticus 25:34
And I will bring a sword against you to execute the 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 enemy.
- Leviticus 26:25