Thematic Bible: Fortified


Thematic Bible



Where is the god of Hamath and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Ivah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? Verse ConceptsBoasters

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

Iron, Migdalel, Horem, Bethanath, and Bethshemesh: nineteen cities with their villages. Verse ConceptsNineteen

Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh nor the inhabitants of Bethanath, but he dwelt among the Canaanites that inhabited the land; nevertheless, the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them. Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherForced Labour

and the valley of Betharam and Bethnimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side of the Jordan eastward.

and Bethnimrah and Bethharan, fenced cities, and also folds for sheep. Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesStock Keeping

Iron, Migdalel, Horem, Bethanath, and Bethshemesh: nineteen cities with their villages. Verse ConceptsNineteen

Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh nor the inhabitants of Bethanath, but he dwelt among the Canaanites that inhabited the land; nevertheless, the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them. Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherForced Labour

Now, therefore, give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for thou didst hear in that day how the Anakims were there and that the cities were great and strong; peradventure, the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD said. Verse ConceptsFortificationsCityHelpfulnessLand, As A Divine GiftLargenessCourage, Examples OfGiantsGod Will Be With YouGradual Conquest Of The Landreinforcement

And it came to pass when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, that those who remained of them entered into strong cities. Verse ConceptsCityCarnageExterminationSurvivors Of The Nations

and Bethnimrah and Bethharan, fenced cities, and also folds for sheep. Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesStock Keeping

Likewise, he rebuilt Bethhoron the upper and Bethhoron the lower, fenced cities with walls, gates, and bars; Verse ConceptsFortificationsGates

And their father had given them great gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn. Verse ConceptsFirstbornGoldInheritance, MaterialBirthrights

Hear, O Israel: Thou art ready to pass over the Jordan this day to enter in to inherit that of Gentiles greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCityLargenessComparisonsCrossing Into The Promised Landisrael

and Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fenced cities. And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them and provisions and wine and oil; and in all the cities he put shields and spears. He fortified them greatly, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah and likewise in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa, his father had taken. Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesCity

These were servants of the king, besides those whom the king had put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

He stretched out his hand over the sea; he shook the kingdoms; the LORD commanded upon Canaan that her strength should be weakened. Verse ConceptsHand Of GodKingdomsGod's HandDestruction Of StrongholdsGod's Hands Stretched Out

And the strong cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth, Verse ConceptsFortified Cities

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, came Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, and took Ijon, Abelbethmaachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali and carried them captive to Assyria. Verse ConceptsExile, in assyriaArmies, Against IsraelExile Of Israel To AssyriaCapturing CitiesList Of Kings Of Israel

Hearing of this, Jabin, king of Hazor, sent a message unto Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph

Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor, the captain of whose host was Sisera, and he dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. Verse ConceptsCommander

Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

And Joshua at that time returned and took Hazor and smote the king thereof with the sword because Hazor had been the head of all those kingdoms before. And they smote all the souls that were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was not any left to breathe; and he burnt Hazor with fire.

But of all the cities that stood on their hills, Israel burned none of them, excepting Hazor only, which Joshua burned. Verse ConceptsArchaeologyConflagrationsBurning Cities

the king of Madon, another; the king of Hazor, another;

And Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin, the king of Hazor, and the house of Heber the Kenite. Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingNomadsNamed WivesTime Of Peace

And when they forgot the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. Verse ConceptsForgetting

and Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fenced cities.

and this border turns from there to Horma and to the strong city of Zor; ; and this border turns to Hosah and comes out to the sea from the stronghold of Achzib,

Then they came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out towards the Negev from Judah, even to Beersheba. Verse ConceptsFortresses