Thematic Bible: Fort


Thematic Bible



Be my protector and refuge, a stronghold where I can be safe! For you are my high ridge and my stronghold. Verse ConceptsFortificationsdefence, divineGod, The RockRefugeRocksGod Being Our RefugeProtection And Safety




who loves me and is my stronghold, my refuge and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I take shelter, who makes nations submit to me. Verse ConceptsFortressesGod, The RockShieldsStrongholdsGod Being Our FortressGod My SalvationGod Shows His Lovingkindness


The Lord is alive! My protector is praiseworthy! The God who delivers me is exalted as king! Verse ConceptsGod, The RockRefugeRocksSpiritual FoundationsBlessed Be God!

He said: "The Lord is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer. My God is my rocky summit where I take shelter, my shield, the horn that saves me, my stronghold, my refuge, my savior. You save me from violence!

For you are my high ridge and my stronghold; for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me. Verse ConceptsGuidance, Receiving God'sFor The Sake Of His NameGuidance And Strength

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture. Verse ConceptsFortificationsCisternsVineyardWatchmanAgricultureFarming

He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats

Then he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey. Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsPitsTowersVineyardWinepressFortsDigging PitsTreading GrapesBeginning To TeachJesus Using ParablesLeasingHoles In The Ground

Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time. Verse ConceptsOccupationsFortsAfter A Long TimeLeasingFarming

So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahAttackingInvasionsKingsSiegesTravelWarfare, Examples OfArmies, Against IsraelFortsMonth 10Years Of Zedekiah

He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will build a siege wall against you, erect a siege ramp against you, and raise a great shield against you. Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it. Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBattering ramsFortsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

Pharaoh with his great army and mighty horde will not help him in battle, when siege ramps are erected and siege-walls are built to kill many people. Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds. Verse ConceptsCavesPower, HumanSelf DefenceStrength, HumanStrongholdsFortsDensEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesCaves As Places Of Refuge

This is the person who will live in a secure place; he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; he will have food and a constant supply of water. Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodWaterFortsStones For ProtectionPeople Providing Food

Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi. Verse ConceptsForts

In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. Verse ConceptsFameIntelligenceStonesInventionsArrowsSports

The fortified city (along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground. Verse ConceptsStrongholdsFortsPutting Things Downdust

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