Topic
Castle
15 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 25:16Easton · Nave A tower
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
- 1 Chronicles 11:7Easton · Nave A tower
And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
- Acts 21:34Easton · Nave A tower
And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
- Numbers 31:10Nave A tower
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
- Deuteronomy 24:10Nave For the doctrine, “The house is my castle,” see
¶ When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:11Nave For the doctrine, “The house is my castle,” see
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
- 1 Chronicles 6:54Easton
¶ Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
- 1 Chronicles 11:5Nave A tower
And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.
- 2 Chronicles 17:12Nave A tower
¶ And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
- 2 Chronicles 27:4Nave A tower
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
- Proverbs 18:19Nave Bars of
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
- Acts 21:37Nave A tower
And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
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- Acts 23:10 Nave A tower
- Acts 23:16 Nave A tower
- Acts 23:32 Nave A tower
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
A military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The “castle” into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
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See FORTIFICATION.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.