Quotes about Cities
He made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him very great wealth.
- 2 Chronicles 32:29
Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:6
and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.
- Ezra 4:10
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
- Nehemiah 11:33
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
- Nehemiah 11:34
Lod, and Ono; and in the Valley of the Craftsmen.
- Nehemiah 11:35
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
- Job 3:14
The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
- Psalm 9:6
For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
- Psalm 69:35
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
- Isaiah 1:7
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
- Isaiah 6:11
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- Isaiah 10:9