Public

“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.

And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

…he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

…you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until the time of his public appearance to Israel.

…and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.