Dict: smith - CITIES

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CITIES - C>@ - The earliest notice in Scripture of city-building is of Enoch by Cain, in the land of his exile. kjv@Genesis:4:17) After the confusion of tongues the descendants of Nimrod founded Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar, and Asshur, a branch from the same stock, built Nineveh, Rehoboth-by-the-river, Calah and Resen, the last being "a great city." The earliest description of a city, properly so called, is that of Sodom, kjv@Genesis:19:1-22) Even before the time of Abraham there were cities in Egypt, kjv@Genesis:12:14-15; kjv@Numbers:13:22) and the Israelites, during their sojourn there, were employed in building or fortifying the "treasure cities" of Pithom and Raamses. kjv@Exodus:1:11) Fenced cities , fortified with high walls, (3:5) were occupied and perhaps partly rebuilt after the conquest, by the settled inhabitants of Syria on both sides of the Jordan.

CITIES OF REFUGE - C>@ - six Levitical cities specially chosen for refuge to the involuntary homicide until released from banishment by the death of the high priest. kjv@Numbers:35:6 kjv@Numbers:35:13-15 kjv@Joshua:20:2 kjv@Joshua:20:7-9) There were three on each side of Jordan. KEDESH, in Naphtali. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:76) SHECHEM, in Mount Ephraim. kjv@Joshua:21:21; kjv@1Chronicles:6:67; kjv@2Chronicles:10:1) HEBRON, in Judah. kjv@Joshua:21:13; 2 Samuel kjv@5:5; 1Chronicles:6:55 kjv@1Chronicles:29:27; kjv@2Chronicles:11:10) On the east side of Jordan
- BEZER IN THE WILDERNESS, in the tribe of Reuben, in the plains of Moab. (4:43; kjv@Joshua:20:8 kjv@Joshua:21:36) 1Macc. kjv@5:26. RAMOTH

- GILEAD, in the tribe of Gad. (4:43; kjv@Joshua:21:38; kjv@Kings:22:3) GOLAN, in Bashan, in the half-tribe of Manasseh. (4:43; kjv@Joshua:21:27; kjv@1Chronicles:6:71)