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Want to know what the Bible says about Cities? Here are 154 Bible verses about Cities from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Jeremiah 29:7 NIV
Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
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Hebrews 11:10 NIV
For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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Hebrews 13:14 NIV
For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
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Hebrews 11:16 NIV
Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
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Psalm 107:36 NIV
there he brought the hungry to live,
    and they founded a city where they could settle.
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Psalm 127:1 NIV
Unless the Lord builds the house,
    the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
    the guards stand watch in vain.
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Exodus 1:11 NIV
So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
Joshua 10:2 NIV
He and his people were very much alarmed at this, because Gibeon was an important city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were good fighters.
1 Kings 9:19 NIV
as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.
2 Chronicles 8:4 NIV
He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles 8:6 NIV
as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.
Numbers 35:6 NIV
“Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.
Numbers 13:28 NIV
But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.
Joshua 10:20 NIV
So Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely, but a few survivors managed to reach their fortified cities.
2 Chronicles 17:2 NIV
He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
2 Chronicles 17:19 NIV
These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.
Deuteronomy 1:28 NIV
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’”
Deuteronomy 3:5 NIV
All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.
Numbers 32:17 NIV
But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
Genesis 41:48 NIV
Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

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