12 Bible Verses about Citadels
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Walk around Zion. Go around it. Count its towers. Examine its embankments. Inspect its watchtowers. Then you can tell the next generation,
Meanwhile, Joab fought against the Ammonite city of Rabbah and captured its royal fortress.
Zimri saw that the city had fallen. So he went into the palace's inner fortress and set the palace on fire. He died in the flames.
Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him. He attacked him in the king's great house in Samaria. Fifty men of Gilead were with him. He killed the king and became king in his place.
The history of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. Now it came about, in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was in Shushan, the castle, Hanani, one of my brothers, came with men from Judah. This was in answer to my request for news about the Jews who had been prisoners and escaped from captivity and about Jerusalem.
I need a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. The king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.
I appointed my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem. For he was a man of good faith, respecting God more than most.
([Sons of Korah]) Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, his sacred mountain. His situation if beautiful. Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth. The city of the great King is in the far reaches of the north. God is in his citadel. He has made himself known.
Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches.
I saw in the vision: I was in Shushan the castle (palace), which is in the province of Elam by the River Ulai.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Their arguments are like the bars of a castle.
