27 Bible Verses About Community Building

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

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

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

And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

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

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:

And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

And Maarath, and Beth–anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:

And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:

And Beth–lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:

Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.

And Iron, and Migdal–el, Horem, and Beth–anath, and Beth–shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

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

Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.

Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.