place: and our little ones shall | Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, Deut. i, 23. Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. Deut. iii. 5. All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. Deut. ix, 1. Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven. Josh. x, 19, 20. And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand. And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities. Josh. xiv, 12. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. to 1 Sam. xxiii, 7. And it was told Saul that David was come Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars. 2 Sam. v, 9. So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. 2 Sam. xx, 6. And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm then did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. 2 Kings x, 2. Now as soon as this letter cometh to you. seeing your master's sons are with you and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour. 1 Chron. xi, 7. And David dwelt In the castle; therefore they called it the city of David. And Adoraim, and Lachish, and 2 Chron. xii, 4. And he took the fenced cities in Judah: for the land 2 Chron. xvii, 2, 12. And he indges in the land throughout all 2 Chron. xxi, 3. And their father Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem covered the covering of Judah, Isa. xxii, 8-11. And he disthe armour of the house of the and thou didst look in that day to forest. Ye have seen also the they are many: and ye gathered breaches of the city of David, that together the waters of the lower pool. And ye have numbered 2 Chron. xi, 5-12, 23. And Reho- the houses of Jerusalem, and the boam dwelt in Jerusalem, and houses have ye broken down to built cities for defence in Judah fortify the wall. Ye made also a He built even Beth-lehem, and ditch between the two walls for Etam, and Tekoa, And Beth-zur, the water of the old pool: but ye and Shoco, and Adullam, And I have not looked unto the maker 53 thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. pas: in the fourteenth year of heard long ago, how I have done Isa. xxxvii. 26. Hast thou not Jer. iv, 5. Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. thine harvest, and Jer. viii, 14. Why do we sit Jerusalem, and against all the Dan. xi, 15. So the king of the mount, and take the most fenced north shall come, and cast up a cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. Hosea viii, 14. For Israel hath plied fenced cities; but I will send forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multia fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (See under War.) Zion, and go round about her: tell Ps. cxxv, 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. this song be sung in the land of Isa. xxvi, 1. In that day shall Josh. ii, 15. house was upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. and it shall consume the palaces I opened till after the sabbath: and Ezek. xiii, 10. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter. Acts ix, 25. Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket. GATES. Gen. xxiii, 10. And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, eren of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying. Josh. vi, 5. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the Gen. xxxiv, 20, 24. And Hamor trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall and Shechem his son came unto of the city shall fall down flat, and the gate of their city, and comthe people shall ascend up everymuned with the men of their city, saying. And unto Hamor and man straight before him. unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 2 Sam. xxii, 30. For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. 2 Kin. vi, 26. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king! 2 Kin. xviii, 26. Then said Ellakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 2 Chron. xxvii, 3. He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. Neh. ii, 15, 17. Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. thereof are Neh. iv, 6. So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. Neh. vii, 1. Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed. Isa. ii, 15. fenced wall. And upon every Josh. ii, 5. And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whether the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. Judges xvi, 3. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron. my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy. Isa. xlv, 1, 2. Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of of iron. brass, and cut in sunder the bars Jer. xxxix, 3. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal - sharezer, Samgar - nebo, NergalSarsechim, Rab-saris, sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. Nah.ii, 6. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. Acts ix, 24. But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. Acts xii, 10. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. Acts xiv, 13. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their unto the gates, and would have city, brought oxen and garlands 2 Kin. vil, 1, 18. Then Elisha 2 Chron. xviii, 9. And the king before them. Neh. xiii, 19, 22. And it came to pass, that when the gates of high tower, and upon every Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that Jer. xlix, 27. And I will kindle the gates should be shut, and a fire in the wall of Damascus, I charged that they should not be 54 sacrifice with the people. Ps. cvii, 16. For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. Prov. i, 21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words, saying. Prov. viii, 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Prov. xxxi, 23. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. Isa. Ixii, 10. Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. Obad. 11. In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. Matth. vii, 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Matth. xvi, 18. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. STREETS. Gen. xix, 2. And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. many as touched him were made, strange wives in our cities come city ye enter, and they receive Luke xiv, 21. So that servant CITIES GUARDED. Ps. cvii, 36. And there he makmay prepare a city for habitation. eth the hungry to dwell, that they LORD keep the city, the watchP3. cxxvii, 1. Except the man waketh but in vain. Çant. v, 7. The watchmen that they smote me, they wounded went about the city found me, me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. Dumah. He calleth to me out of Josh. ii, 19. And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him. Isa. xxxii, 18, 19. And my peoJudges xix, 15. And they turn-ple shall dwell in a peaceable ed aside thither, to go in and to habitation, and in sure dwellings, lodge in Gibeah: and when he went and in quiet resting places; When in, he sat him down in a street of it shall hail, coming down on the the city: for there was no man forest; and the city shall be low in that took them into his house to a low place. lodging. 2 Sam. i, 20. Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 1 Kin. xx, 34. And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. Çant. iii, 2. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. Zech. vili, 5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Mark vl, 56. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as GOVERNED BY ELDERS. Deut. xix, 12. Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Deut. xxi, 6. And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: Josh. xx, 4. And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. Judges viii, 16. And he took the Ruth iv, 2. And he took ten of all the congregation stand, and 55 be turned from us. CITY OF GOD. the city of God, the holy place of and greatly to be praised in the are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. THE HOLY CITY. Neh. xi, 1. 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. Neh. xi, 18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four. themselves of the holy city, and Isa. xlviii, 2. For they call stay themselves upon the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name. on thy strength, O Zion; put on Isa. lii, 1. Awake, awake; put thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. determined upon thy people and Dan. ix, 24. Seventy weeks are upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. taketh him up into the holy city, Matth. iv, 5. Then the devil and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple. tion, and went into the holy city, of the graves after his resurrecMatth. xxvii, 53. And came out and appeared unto many. Rev. xi, 2. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. Rev. xxi, 2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Rev. xxii, 19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy. God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. ARCHITECTURAL MONU- his house, but it shall not stand: Job viii, 15. He shall lean upon he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. house as a moth, and as a booth Job xxvii, 18. He buildeth his that the keeper maketh. Isa. v, 9. In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, ercn great and fair, without inhabitant. Isa. xiii, 19, 20. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew ye shall lodge this night. Then | heard long ago how I have done Joshua called the twelve men, it, and of ancient times that I have whom he had prepared of the chil- formed it? now have I brought it dren of Israel, out of every tribe to pass, that thou shouldest be to a man: And Joshua said unto lay waste fenced cities into ruinthem. Pass over before the ark of ous heaps. of Jordan, and take you up every the LORD your God into the midst man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What man ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a Gen. xxviii, 18. And Jacob rose memorial unto the children of up early in the morning, and took Israel for ever. And the children the stone that he had put for his of Israel did so as Joshua compillows, and set it up for a pillar,manded, and took up twelve and poured oil upon the top of it. stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, Gen. xxxi, 45, 46, 51, 52. And according to the number of the Jacob took a stone, and set it up tribes of the children of Israel, for a pillar. And Jacob said unto and carried them over with them his brethren, Gather stones; and unto the place where they lodged, they took stones, and made an and laid them down there. And heap: and they did eat there upon Joshua set up twelve stones in the heap. And Laban said to the midst of Jordan, in the place Jacob. Behold this heap, and be- where the feet of the priests hold this pillar, which I have cast which bare the ark of the covebetwixt me and thee; This heap naut stood: and they are there be witness, and this pillar be wit- unto this day. And those twelve ness, that I will not pass over this stones, which they took out of heap to thee, and that thou shalt Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilnot pass over this heap and this gal. And he spake unto the chilpillar unto me, for harm. dren of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Gen. xxxv, 13, 14. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. Erod. xxiv. 4. And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Deut. xxvii, 4. Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. Josh. xxiv, 26, 27. And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. 1 Sam. vii, 12. Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the nanie of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. Josh. iv, 1-9, 20, 21. And it came 2 Sam. xviii, 18. Now Absalom to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that in his lifetime had taken and the LORD spake unto Joshua, say-reared up for himself a pillar ing, Take you twelve men out of which is in the king's dale: for he the people, out of every tribe a man. And command ye them, saying. Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where said, I have no son to keep my CITIES IN RUINS. 2 Kings xix, 25. Hast thou not Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Isa. xiv, 31. Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. Isa. xvii, 1. The burden of Damascus, Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. fusion is broken down: every Isa. xxiv, 10, 12. The city of conhouse is shut up, that no man may come in. In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Isa. xxv, 2. 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. city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like Isa. xxvii, 10. Yet the defenced a wilderness. Isa. xxxii, 14. Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left. Jer. x, 22. Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate. Jer. xlix. 33. And Hazor shall be a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. Lam. ii, 7-9. The LORD hath cast off his altar; he hath abhorred his sanctuary: he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from ! destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. Ezek. xiii, 11, 12, 14. Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Ezek. xxv, 5. And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching-place for flocks. Amos vl, 11. For, behold, the LORD Commandeth, and he' will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. Zeph. ii, 13, 15. And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. RESTORATION. # Judges xxi, 23. 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. 1 Kings xi, 27. And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. 1 Chron. xi, 8. And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. 2 Chron. xxix, 3. He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. 2 Chron. xxxii, 5. Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and Ezra iv, 2. Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. another wall without, and repaired | bars thereof. But the gate of the them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate. After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shielemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against bis chamber. After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto |