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They serve as centers of social, economic, and religious life, often reflecting the cultural and historical backdrop of the biblical narrative. Old Testament Context In the Old Testament, towns are frequently mentioned as places of settlement, refuge, and governance. The Hebrew word often translated as "town" is "עִיר" (ir), which can also mean "city." Towns in ancient Israel were typically fortified with walls for protection against invaders. For example, the town of Jericho is famously known for its walls that fell after the Israelites marched around them for seven days (<a href="/joshua/6-20.htm">Joshua 6:20</a>: "So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then the people charged straight into the city and captured it."). Towns were also places of judgment and administration. The elders of a town would often sit at the gate to make legal decisions and settle disputes (<a href="/deuteronomy/21-19.htm">Deuteronomy 21:19</a>: "they shall bring him to the elders of his city at the gate of his hometown"). This reflects the town's role as a center of communal life and governance. New Testament Context In the New Testament, towns continue to be significant as the backdrop for much of Jesus' ministry and the early church's activities. Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem (<a href="/matthew/2.htm">Matthew 2:1</a>: "After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem"). He grew up in Nazareth, a town in Galilee, which became a point of reference for His identity (<a href="/matthew/2-23.htm">Matthew 2:23</a>: "And He went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: 'He will be called a Nazarene.'"). Towns such as Capernaum, Bethsaida, and Jerusalem are frequently mentioned in the Gospels as places where Jesus taught, performed miracles, and interacted with various individuals and groups. Capernaum, in particular, is noted as a central hub for Jesus' ministry (<a href="/matthew/4-13.htm">Matthew 4:13</a>: "Leaving Nazareth, He went and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali"). Symbolic and Theological Significance Towns in the Bible often carry symbolic and theological significance. They can represent places of refuge and safety, as seen in the cities of refuge established for those who accidentally committed manslaughter (<a href="/numbers/35-11.htm">Numbers 35:11</a>: "select cities to be your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there"). Conversely, towns can also symbolize places of judgment and destruction, as seen in the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah (<a href="/genesis/19-24.htm">Genesis 19:24-25</a>: "Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground"). In the prophetic literature, towns are often used metaphorically to convey messages of hope or warning. For instance, the restoration of Jerusalem is a central theme in the prophetic books, symbolizing the future hope and redemption of God's people (<a href="/isaiah/62.htm">Isaiah 62:1</a>: "For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch"). Conclusion Towns in the Bible are more than mere geographical locations; they are integral to the unfolding of God's redemptive plan. They serve as settings for divine encounters, human interactions, and the fulfillment of God's promises throughout the biblical narrative.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/2969.htm">2969. komopolis -- a country town</a> ... It's (constitution) really amounted to (Souter). Word Origin from kome and polis Definition a country town NASB Word Usage towns (1). town, unwalled city. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2969.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/2333.htm">2333. chavvah -- a tent village</a> ... 2332, 2333. chavvah. 2334 . a tent village. Transliteration: chavvah Phonetic Spelling: (khav-vaw') Short Definition: towns. Word ... /hebrew/2333.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/5892b.htm">5892b. ir -- city, town</a> ... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition city, town NASB Word Usage cities (420), cities each (1), city (643), city and its towns (1), each and city (3 ... /hebrew/5892b.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/8179.htm">8179. shaar -- a gate</a> ... courts (1), each gate (1), every gate (1), every gate (1), Gate (49), gate (195), gatekeepers* (1), gates (88), gateway (4), gateway* (2), town (6), towns (13 ... /hebrew/8179.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7157.htm">7157. Qiryath Yearim -- "city of forests," a city given to Judah ...</a> ... former part of the word; or Qiryath tariym {keer-yath' aw-reem'}; from qiryah and the plural of ya'ar or iyr; city of forests, or city of towns; Kirjath-Jearim ... /hebrew/7157.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm">1323. bath -- daughter</a> ... daughter's daughter (2), daughters (241), dispersed* (1), granddaughter (4), granddaughters* (1), maidens (2), old (3), ostriches* (1), towns (28), villages ( ... /hebrew/1323.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/wesley/the_journal_of_john_wesley/wesley_and_seaport_towns.htm">Wesley and Seaport Towns</a> ... Chapter 14. Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents; Wesley's Opinion of Mary Queen of Scots Wesley and Seaport Towns. ... /.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley and seaport towns.htm<a href="/library/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_89_divers_towns_called.htm">Divers Towns Called by the Name of Tyre.</a> ... A Chorographical Century. Chapters 81-90 Chapter 89 Divers towns called by the name of Tyre. Besides Tyre, the noble mart of Phoenicia ... /.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 89 divers towns called.htm<a href="/library/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_95_some_towns_upon.htm">Some Towns Upon the Very Limits of the Land. Out of the Jerusalem ...</a> ... A Chorographical Century. Chapters 91-100 Chapter 95 Some towns upon the very limits of the land. Out of the Jerusalem Talmud, Demai, fol. 22. 4. ... /.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 95 some towns upon.htm<a href="/library/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_78_some_other_towns.htm">Some Other Towns Near Tiberias. Beth-Meon. Caphar Chittaia. ...</a> ... A Chorographical Century. Chapters 71-80 Chapter 78 Some other towns near Tiberias. Beth-Meon. Caphar Chittaia. Paltathah. Among ... /.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 78 some other towns.htm<a href="/library/sozomen/the_ecclesiastical_history_of_sozomenus/chapter_ii_of_the_bishops_of.htm">Of the Bishops of the Large Towns in the Reign of Constantine; and ...</a> ... Book I. Chapter II."Of the Bishops of the Large Towns in the Reign of Constantine; and how, from fear of Licinius, Christianity was professed cautiously in ... /.../the ecclesiastical history of sozomenus/chapter ii of the bishops of.htm<a href="/library/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_73_of_the_situation.htm">Of the Situation of Tiberias.</a> ... Pliny speaks thus of the situation of it: "The lake [of Genesar] is compassed round with pleasant towns: on the east, Julias and Hippo; on the south, Tarichea ... /.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 73 of the situation.htm<a href="/library/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_98_some_miscellaneous_matters.htm">Some Miscellaneous Matters Respecting the Face of the Land.</a> ... "Towns ... You see a threefold distinction of cities and towns: 1. Fortifications, or towns girt with walls from the days of Joshua. But whence shall we know them? ... /.../from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 98 some miscellaneous matters.htm<a href="/library/borrow/letters_of_george_borrow/account_of_proceedings_in_the.htm">Account of Proceedings in the Peninsula</a> ... where books in the aboriginal tongue are both scarce and dear, and that several applications have been made at San Sebastian and in other towns where Basque is ... /.../borrow/letters of george borrow/account of proceedings in the.htm<a href="/library/williamson/have_we_no_rights/chapter_11_the_right_to.htm">The Right to Run Things</a> ... But then, think of all the smaller towns and villages! As soon as things get going in the city, we must start outstations in strategic market towns as well. ... /.../christianbookshelf.org/williamson/have we no rights/chapter 11 the right to.htm<a href="/library/renan/the_life_of_jesus/chapter_iii_education_of_jesus.htm">Education of Jesus.</a> ... The schoolmaster in the small Jewish towns was the hazzan, or reader in the synagogues.[1] Jesus frequented little the higher schools of the scribes or ... /.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter iii education of jesus.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/t/towns.htm">Towns (450 Occurrences)</a> ... Multi-Version Concordance Towns (450 Occurrences). Matthew 4:25 And great crowds followed Him, coming from Galilee, from the Ten ... /t/towns.htm - 36k<a href="/topical/d/daughter-towns.htm">Daughter-towns (17 Occurrences)</a> Daughter-towns. Daughters-in-law, Daughter-towns. Daunted . Multi-Version Concordance Daughter-towns (17 Occurrences). ... /d/daughter-towns.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/s/store-towns.htm">Store-towns (5 Occurrences)</a> Store-towns. Stores, Store-towns. Stories . Multi-Version Concordance Store-towns (5 Occurrences). Exodus 1:11 So they ... /s/store-towns.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/c/carriage-towns.htm">Carriage-towns (3 Occurrences)</a> Carriage-towns. Carriages, Carriage-towns. Carriage-wheels . Multi-Version Concordance Carriage-towns (3 Occurrences). ... /c/carriage-towns.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/t/tent-towns.htm">Tent-towns (1 Occurrence)</a> Tent-towns. Tents, Tent-towns. Tephon . Multi-Version Concordance Tent-towns (1 Occurrence). 1 Chronicles 2:23 And Geshur ... /t/tent-towns.htm - 6k<a href="/topical/s/settlements.htm">Settlements (27 Occurrences)</a> ... (See NIV). Numbers 21:25 Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns. (See NIV). ... /s/settlements.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/u/unwalled.htm">Unwalled (39 Occurrences)</a> ... Leviticus 25:31 But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in ... /u/unwalled.htm - 17k<a href="/topical/g/grass-lands.htm">Grass-lands (42 Occurrences)</a> ... Joshua 21:2 And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands ... /g/grass-lands.htm - 17k<a href="/topical/s/shean.htm">Shean (5 Occurrences)</a> ... Joshua 17:11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and ... /s/shean.htm - 8k<a href="/topical/s/shan.htm">Shan (8 Occurrences)</a> ... Joshua 17:11 Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and ... /s/shan.htm - 9k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Sanhedrin.html">What was the Sanhedrin? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/community-church.html">What is a community church? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Holy-Land.html">Why is Israel called the Holy Land? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Towns (450 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/4-25.htm">Matthew 4:25</a> And great crowds followed Him, coming from Galilee, from the Ten Towns, from Jerusalem, and from beyond the district on the other side of the Jordan. (WEY)<a href="/matthew/9-35.htm">Matthew 9:35</a> And Jesus continued His circuits through all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and infirmity. (WEY BBE NIV)<a href="/matthew/10-23.htm">Matthew 10:23</a> Whenever they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for I solemnly tell you that you will not have gone the round of all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. (WEY BBE RSV)<a href="/matthew/11-1.htm">Matthew 11:1</a> When Jesus had concluded His instructions to His twelve disciples, He left in order to teach and to proclaim His Message in the neighbouring towns. (WEY BBE NIV)<a href="/matthew/11-20.htm">Matthew 11:20</a> Then began He to upbraid the towns where most of His mighty works had been done--because they had not repented. (WEY BBE)<a href="/matthew/14-13.htm">Matthew 14:13</a> Upon receiving these tidings, Jesus went away by boat to an uninhabited and secluded district; but the people heard of it and followed Him in crowds from the towns by land. (WEY BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Matthew 14:15</a> And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food. (BBE)<a href="/mark/1-38.htm">Mark 1:38</a> He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/mark/5-20.htm">Mark 5:20</a> So the man departed, and related publicly everywhere in the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and all were astonished. (WEY)<a href="/mark/6-33.htm">Mark 6:33</a> But the people saw them going, and many knew them; and coming by land they ran together there from all the neighbouring towns, and arrived before them. (WEY BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/6-36.htm">Mark 6:36</a> Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves. (BBE)<a href="/mark/6-56.htm">Mark 6:56</a> And wherever he went, into small towns, or great towns, or into the country, they took those who were ill into the market-places, requesting him that they might put their hands even on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well. (BBE NIV)<a href="/mark/7-31.htm">Mark 7:31</a> Returning from the neighbourhood of Tyre, He came by way of Sidon to the Lake of Galilee, passing through the district of the Ten Towns. (WEY)<a href="/mark/8-27.htm">Mark 8:27</a> And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? (KJV BBE WBS)<a href="/luke/4-43.htm">Luke 4:43</a> But He said to them, "I have to tell the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, because for this purpose I was sent." (WEY BBE NIV)<a href="/luke/5-12.htm">Luke 5:12</a> On another occasion, when He was in one of the towns, there was a man there covered with leprosy, who, seeing Jesus, threw himself at His feet and implored Him, saying, "Sir, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean." (WEY BBE NIV)<a href="/luke/9-6.htm">Luke 9:6</a> And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where. (KJV BBE WBS)<a href="/luke/9-12.htm">Luke 9:12</a> And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place. (KJV BBE WBS)<a href="/luke/13-22.htm">Luke 13:22</a> And he went on his way, through towns and country places, teaching and journeying to Jerusalem. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/luke/19-17.htm">Luke 19:17</a> "'Well done, good servant,' he replied; 'because you have been faithful in a very small matter, be in authority over ten towns.' (WEY BBE)<a href="/luke/19-19.htm">Luke 19:19</a> "So he said to this one also, "'And you, be the governor of five towns.' (WEY BBE)<a href="/acts/5-16.htm">Acts 5:16</a> The inhabitants, too, of the towns in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem came in crowds, bringing sick persons and some who were harassed by foul spirits, and they were cured, one and all. (WEY BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/8-25.htm">Acts 8:25</a> So they, having given their witness and made clear the word of the Lord, went back to Jerusalem, giving the good news on their way in a number of the small towns of Samaria. (BBE)<a href="/acts/8-40.htm">Acts 8:40</a> But Philip came to Azotus, and went through all the towns, preaching the good news, till he came to Caesarea. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/14-6.htm">Acts 14:6</a> the Apostles, having become aware of it, made their escape into the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe, and the neighbouring country. (WEY BBE)<a href="/acts/15-36.htm">Acts 15:36</a> After a while Paul said to Barnabas, "Suppose we now revisit the brethren in the various towns in which we have made known the Lord's Message--to see whether they are prospering!" (WEY NIV)<a href="/acts/16-4.htm">Acts 16:4</a> And on their way through the towns, they gave them the rules which had been made by the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem, so that they might keep them. (BBE)<a href="/acts/26-11.htm">Acts 26:11</a> In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased them even to foreign towns. (WEY BBE)<a href="/acts/27-2.htm">Acts 27:2</a> And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. (BBE)<a href="/acts/27-2.htm">Acts 27:2</a> And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/16-19.htm">Revelation 16:19</a> And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/13-12.htm">Genesis 13:12</a> Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/19-25.htm">Genesis 19:25</a> And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/19-29.htm">Genesis 19:29</a> So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/25-16.htm">Genesis 25:16</a> These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. (KJV BBE WBS)<a href="/genesis/35-5.htm">Genesis 35:5</a> So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob. (BBE NIV)<a href="/genesis/41-35.htm">Genesis 41:35</a> And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/41-48.htm">Genesis 41:48</a> And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town. (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/25-31.htm">Leviticus 25:31</a> But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee. (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/25-32.htm">Leviticus 25:32</a> But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time. (BBE NIV)<a href="/leviticus/25-33.htm">Leviticus 25:33</a> And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel. (BBE NIV)<a href="/leviticus/25-34.htm">Leviticus 25:34</a> But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever. (BBE NIV)<a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm">Leviticus 26:25</a> And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters. (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/26-31.htm">Leviticus 26:31</a> And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes; (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/26-33.htm">Leviticus 26:33</a> And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/13-19.htm">Numbers 13:19</a> And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns; (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/13-28.htm">Numbers 13:28</a> But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/21-2.htm">Numbers 21:2</a> Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/21-3.htm">Numbers 21:3</a> And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/21-25.htm">Numbers 21:25</a> Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns. (WEB JPS ASV BBE)<a href="/numbers/21-32.htm">Numbers 21:32</a> Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there. (WEB JPS ASV BBE)<a href="/numbers/31-10.htm">Numbers 31:10</a> And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles, (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/32-16.htm">Numbers 32:16</a> Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones; (BBE)<a href="/numbers/32-17.htm">Numbers 32:17</a> But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/32-24.htm">Numbers 32:24</a> So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/32-26.htm">Numbers 32:26</a> Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead; (BBE)<a href="/numbers/32-33.htm">Numbers 32:33</a> So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/32-36.htm">Numbers 32:36</a> And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/32-38.htm">Numbers 32:38</a> And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/32-41.htm">Numbers 32:41</a> Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/numbers/32-42.htm">Numbers 32:42</a> And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/35-2.htm">Numbers 35:2</a> Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-3.htm">Numbers 35:3</a> These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts, (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-4.htm">Numbers 35:4</a> Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-5.htm">Numbers 35:5</a> The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-6.htm">Numbers 35:6</a> And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-7.htm">Numbers 35:7</a> Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-8.htm">Numbers 35:8</a> And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-11.htm">Numbers 35:11</a> Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight. (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-12.htm">Numbers 35:12</a> In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/35-13.htm">Numbers 35:13</a> Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places; (BBE NIV)<a href="/numbers/35-15.htm">Numbers 35:15</a> For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight. (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/1-22.htm">Deuteronomy 1:22</a> And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come. (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/1-28.htm">Deuteronomy 1:28</a> Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/2-23.htm">Deuteronomy 2:23</a> And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.) (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/2-34.htm">Deuteronomy 2:34</a> At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any: (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/2-35.htm">Deuteronomy 2:35</a> Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken. (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/2-37.htm">Deuteronomy 2:37</a> But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to go. (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/3-4.htm">Deuteronomy 3:4</a> At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take. (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/3-5.htm">Deuteronomy 3:5</a> All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS)<a href="/deuteronomy/3-7.htm">Deuteronomy 3:7</a> But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns. (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/3-10.htm">Deuteronomy 3:10</a> All the towns of the table-land and all Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/3-12.htm">Deuteronomy 3:12</a> And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites. (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/3-19.htm">Deuteronomy 3:19</a> But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you; (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-41.htm">Deuteronomy 4:41</a> Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east; (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-42.htm">Deuteronomy 4:42</a> To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death: (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-43.htm">Deuteronomy 4:43</a> The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh. (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/6-9.htm">Deuteronomy 6:9</a> Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns. (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/6-10.htm">Deuteronomy 6:10</a> And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building; (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/9-1.htm">Deuteronomy 9:1</a> Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven; (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/11-20.htm">Deuteronomy 11:20</a> Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns: (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/12-12.htm">Deuteronomy 12:12</a> You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/12-15.htm">Deuteronomy 12:15</a> Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/12-17.htm">Deuteronomy 12:17</a> In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering; (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/12-18.htm">Deuteronomy 12:18</a> but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/12-21.htm">Deuteronomy 12:21</a> If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/13-12.htm">Deuteronomy 13:12</a> And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place, (BBE NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/14-21.htm">Deuteronomy 14:21</a> You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/14-27.htm">Deuteronomy 14:27</a> The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/deuteronomy/14-28.htm">Deuteronomy 14:28</a> At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: (See RSV NIV)<a href="/concordance/t/towns2.htm"></a><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><a href="/topical/t/towns.htm">Towns</a><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><a href="/topical/t/townsmen.htm">Townsmen (18 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/countryman.htm">Countryman (19 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/c/citizen.htm">Citizen (9 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/t/towns.htm">Towns (450 Occurrences)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/topical/t/town-door.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Town-door"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Town-door" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/topical/t/towns_and_places.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Towns and Places"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Towns and Places" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>