Then you must attack every fortified city and every choice city. You must cut down every good tree and stop up every spring of water. You must ruin every good piece of land with stones.”

When this letter arrives, since your master’s sons are with you and you have chariots, horses, a fortified city, and weaponry,

The Israelites secretly did what was not right against the Lord their God. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Have you not heard?
I designed it long ago;
I planned it in days gone by.
I have now brought it to pass,
and you have crushed fortified cities
into piles of rubble.