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The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Proverbs 18:10 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
  • BSB The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
  • NKJV The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous run to it and are safe.
  • NASB The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe.
  • NLT The name of the Lord is a strong fortress; the godly run to him and are safe.

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Quick answer

The LORD's name is a secure refuge for the righteous. Those who trust in God find safety in Him.

Overview

Yahweh's name, His revealed character and presence, is pictured as a strong tower into which the righteous flee for safety. True security rests not in walls or wealth but in God Himself. This anticipates the gospel, in which salvation is found in the name of the Lord (Acts 2:21) and supremely in the name of Jesus, the only name by which we are saved (Acts 4:12), our refuge and strong tower.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • 2 Sam 22:3The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
  • Ps 91:2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
  • Isa 26:4Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
  • Ps 144:2My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
  • Ps 61:3–4For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
  • Ps 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
  • Ps 18:2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
  • Gen 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
  • Rev 1:8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
  • Matt 1:23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
  • Ps 56:3–4What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
  • Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
  • 1 Sam 30:6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
  • Ps 91:14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
  • Jer 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
  • 2 Sam 22:45–47Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
  • Gen 32:28–29And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
  • Hab 3:19The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
  • Exod 34:5–7And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 22:51He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
  • Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
  • Exod 3:13–15And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
  • Gen 32:11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
  • Exod 6:3And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

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Christ at the center

Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.

How Proverbs 18:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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