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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 48:2

Arranged 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 4:29,30

Numerous - 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 35:6

Inhabitants 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 9:45

Difficulty 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
- Pr 10:15
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