Topic
Towers
41 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 11:4Easton · Torrey Origin and antiquity of
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 35:21Easton · Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Edar
¶ And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
- Judges 8:17Easton · Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Penuel
And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
- 2 Chronicles 26:9Easton · Torrey WERE BUILT — On the walls of cities
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.
- Psalms 48:12Easton · Torrey Of Jerusalem remarkable for number, strength, and beauty
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
- Song of Songs 4:4Easton · Torrey Were used as armouries
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
- Isaiah 5:2Easton · Torrey WERE BUILT — In vineyards
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
- Ezekiel 29:10Easton · Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Syene
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
- Zechariah 14:10Easton · Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Hananeel
All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the…
- Matthew 21:33Easton · Torrey WERE BUILT — In vineyards
¶ Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
- Luke 13:4Easton · Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Siloam
Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
- Genesis 11:9Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Babel
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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- Judges 8:9 Easton
- Judges 9:46 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Shechem
- Judges 9:49 Torrey Frequently thrown down in war
- Judges 9:50 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Thebez
- Judges 9:51 Torrey WERE BUILT — In cities
- 2 Samuel 22:3 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God as the protector of his people
- 2 Samuel 22:51 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God as the protector of his people
- 2 Kings 9:17 Torrey Watchmen posted on, in times of danger
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 Torrey WERE BUILT — On the walls of cities
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Torrey WERE BUILT — In the deserts
- 2 Chronicles 27:4 Torrey WERE BUILT — In the forests
- Nehemiah 3:11 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Of the furnaces
- Nehemiah 12:39 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Meah
- Psalms 18:2 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God as the protector of his people
- Psalms 61:3 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God as the protector of his people
- Proverbs 18:10 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The name of the Lord
- Song of Songs 7:4 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Lebanon
- Song of Songs 8:10 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The grace and dignity of the church
- Isaiah 2:15 Torrey Frequently very high
- Isaiah 30:25 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The proud and haughty
- Isaiah 32:14 Torrey Frequently left desolate
- Jeremiah 6:27 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — Ministers
- Jeremiah 31:38 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Hananeel
- Ezekiel 26:4 Torrey Frequently thrown down in war
- Ezekiel 27:11 Torrey Were used as citadels in time of war
- Ezekiel 30:6 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Syene
- Micah 4:8 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — Mount Sion
- Habakkuk 2:1 Torrey Watchmen posted on, in times of danger
- Zephaniah 3:6 Torrey Frequently left desolate
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 14 references
Of Babel (Gen. 11:4), Edar (Gen. 35:21), Penuel (Judg. 8:9, 17), Shechem (9:46), David (Cant. 4:4), Lebanon (7:4), Syene (Ezek. 29:10), Hananeel (Zech. 14:10), Siloam (Luke 13:4). There were several towers in Jerusalem (2 Chr. 26:9; Ps. 48:12). They were erected for various purposes, as watch-towers in vineyard (Isa. 5:2; Matt. 21:33) and towers for defence.
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 50 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Origin and antiquity of Ge 11:4
- WERE BUILT
- Frequently very high Isa 2:15
- Frequently strong and well fortified Jud 9:51; 2Ch 26:9
- Were used as armouries So 4:4
- Were used as citadels in time of war Jud 9:51; Eze 27:11
- Watchmen posted on, in times of danger 2Ki 9:17; Hab 2:1
- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Of Jerusalem remarkable for number, strength, and beauty Ps 48:12
- Frequently thrown down in war Jud 8:17; 9:49; Eze 26:4
- Frequently left desolate Isa 32:14; Zep 3:6
- ILLUSTRATIVE OF
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.