רְחוֹב

…and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

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.

They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”

“Peace to you,” said the old man. “Let me supply everything you need. Only do not spend the night in the square.”

…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.

Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.

Hezekiah appointed military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city gate. Then he encouraged them, saying,

So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.

At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.

So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,

Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”

So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”

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

Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

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

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

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

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

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.

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

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.

For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

…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.

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

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.

The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”