Topic
FORT
(A military defense)
Passages on this topic · 26
- Deuteronomy 20:19
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
- Deuteronomy 20:20
Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
- Judges 6:2
The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
- 1 Samuel 23:29
David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.
- 2 Samuel 22:2
and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
- 2 Samuel 22:3
God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.
- 2 Samuel 22:47
Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
- 2 Kings 25:1
In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10
He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
- 2 Chronicles 26:15
In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
- Psalms 18:2
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Psalms 31:3
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
- Psalms 71:3
Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
- Psalms 91:2
I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
- Psalms 144:2
my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.
- Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
- Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
- Isaiah 25:12
He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
- Isaiah 33:16
he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
- Ezekiel 4:2
Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.
- Ezekiel 17:17
Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.
- Ezekiel 26:8
He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
- Nahum 1:7
Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
- Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
- Mark 12:1
He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
- Luke 20:9
He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).