Fortresses

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Numbers 24:21Torrey Places strong by nature

  And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.

• Judges 6:2Torrey PLACES USED AS — Strong-holds

  And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

• Judges 9:31Torrey PLACES USED AS — Cities

  And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.

• 2 Samuel 5:9Torrey PLACES USED AS — Forts

  So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

• 2 Chronicles 11:11Torrey PLACES USED AS — Strong-holds

  And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

• 2 Chronicles 26:9Torrey PLACES USED AS — Strong towers

  Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

• Nehemiah 4:2Torrey PLACES USED AS — Cities

  And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

• Psalms 18:2Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God's protection

  The 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.

• Isaiah 17:3Torrey OFTEN — Destruction of, threatened

  The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Isaiah 25:12Torrey PLACES USED AS — Forts

  And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

• Isaiah 33:16Torrey The security of a nation

  He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

• Isaiah 34:13Torrey OFTEN — Deserted, &c

  And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.