Bible Verses About Building a City

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.

He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.

And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

According to the word of the Lord they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath–serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.