Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

Spread far

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Bible References

Cunning men

2 Chronicles 2:7
Send me now therefore a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that has skill to engrave with the skillful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
Exodus 31:4
To devise artistic works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

Spread far

Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with various diseases and torments, and those who were possessed with demons, and those that were epileptic, and those that were paralytic; and he healed them.

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Ezekiel 26:9
And he shall set battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.