Bible Verses About Founding of a City

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.

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,

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

It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.

And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

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.

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.

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful 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 the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.

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.

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.

And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

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

Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.

And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

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

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

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

And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

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

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

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

Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

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

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?

That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.

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 children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

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