Quotes about Cities
then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 19:2
You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:3
Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
- Deuteronomy 19:4
This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:7
and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
- Deuteronomy 19:9
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
- Deuteronomy 20:15
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
- Deuteronomy 20:16
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
- Deuteronomy 21:2
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 28:52
So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
- Joshua 9:17
So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.
- Joshua 10:20
Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.
- Joshua 11:12