Bible Verses About City Building

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.

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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.

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

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,

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.

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.

And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs; four cities.

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

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

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.

And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

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

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

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

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.

Also he built Beth–horon the upper, and Beth–horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

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.