Lexicon :: Strong's G4116 - platys

and said, “My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”

“No,” they said. “We would rather spend the night in the square.”

“Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it.”

“These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them.

They stopped[fn] to go in and spend the night in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one took them into their home to spend the night.

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

“Welcome! ” said the old man. “I’ll take care of everything you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.”

he went and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies the day the Philistines killed Saul at Gilboa.

He made the hall of pillars seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars[fn] was in front of them.

He set military commanders over the people and gathered the people in the square of the city gate. Then he encouraged them,[fn] saying,

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

After him Uzziel son of Harhaiah, the goldsmith, made repairs, and next to him Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is enormous and spread out, and we are separated far from one another along the wall.

The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses had been built yet.

The people went out, brought back branches, and made shelters for themselves on each of their rooftops and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate, and the square by the Ephraim Gate.

When they were in their kingdom,

with your abundant goodness that you gave them,

and in the spacious and fertile land you set before them,

they would not serve you or turn from their wicked ways.

The second thanksgiving procession went to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

When Mordecai learned all that had occurred, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, went into the middle of the city, and cried loudly and bitterly.

When I went out to the city gate

and took my seat in the town square,

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;

I trample them[fn] like mud in the streets.

destruction is inside it;

oppression and deceit never leave its marketplace.

Our cattle will be well fed.[fn]

There will be no breach in the walls,

no going into captivity,[fn]

and no cry of lament in our public squares.

Wisdom calls out in the street;

she makes her voice heard in the public squares.

Should your springs flow in the streets,

streams in the public squares?

At the window of my house

I looked through my lattice.

Now in the street, now in the squares,

she lurks at every corner.

She sits by the doorway of her house,

on a seat at the highest point of the city,

The slacker says, “There’s a lion outside!

I’ll be killed in the public square! ”

I will arise now and go about the city,

through the streets and the plazas.

I will seek the one I love.

I sought him, but did not find him.

In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,

falling down and weeping.

For the majestic one, our LORD, will be there,

a place of rivers and broad streams

where ships that are rowed will not go,

and majestic vessels will not pass.

Roam through the streets of Jerusalem.

Investigate;[fn]

search in her squares.

If you find one person,

any who acts justly,

who pursues faithfulness,

then I will forgive her.

for Death has climbed through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses,

cutting off children from the streets,

young men from the squares.

“On all the rooftops of Moab and in her public squares, everyone is mourning because I have shattered Moab like a jar no one wants.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;

all the warriors will perish in that day.

This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

Therefore, her young men will fall

in her public squares;

all the warriors will perish in that day.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

My eyes are worn out from weeping;

I am churning within.

My heart is poured out in grief[fn]

because of the destruction of my dear people,

because infants and nursing babies faint

in the streets of the city.

Our steps were closely followed

so that we could not walk in our streets.

Our end approached; our time ran out.

Our end had come!

They will throw their silver into the streets,

and their gold will seem like something filthy.

Their silver and gold will be unable to save them

in the day of the LORD’s wrath.

They will not satisfy their appetites

or fill their stomachs,

for these were the stumbling blocks

that brought about their iniquity.

“you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square.

“building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.

This is what the Lord GOD says:

“You will drink your sister’s cup,

which is deep and wide.

You will be an object of[fn] ridicule and scorn,

for it holds so much.

“He will trample all your streets with the hooves of his horses. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

“I will send a plague against her

and bloodshed in her streets;

the slain will fall within her,

while the sword is against her[fn] on every side.

Then they will know that I am the LORD.

“The remaining area, 1 ²/₃ miles[fn] wide and 8 ¹/₃ miles long, will be for common use by the city, for both residential and open space. The city will be in the middle of it.

Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:

There will be wailing in all the public squares;

they will cry out in anguish[fn] in all the streets.

The farmer will be called on to mourn,

and professional mourners[fn] to wail.

The chariots dash madly through the streets;

they rush around in the plazas.

They look like torches;

they dart back and forth like lightning.

The LORD of Armies says this: “Old men and women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of advanced age.