37 Bible Verses about Fortresses

Announce ye in Judah, and cause to be heard in Jerusalem; and say, Strike the trumpet in the land: call, fill up, and say, Be ye gathered together and we will go to the fortified cities. Lift up the signal of Zion: save ye by flight, ye shall not stand: for I bring evil from the north, and a great breaking.

And David will dwell in the desert in fastnesses, and he will dwell in the mountain in the desert of Ziph. And Saul will seek him all the days, and God save him not into his hand.

And David will dwell in the fastness, and he will call it the city of David. And David will build round about from Millo and its house.

And David dwelt in the castle; for this they called to it the city of David. And he will build the city from round about from Millo, and even round about: and Joab will revive the remainder of the city.

And David will say to Abishai, Now Sheba son of Bichri will do evil to us above Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants and go down after him, lest finding to himself fortified cities and he shadow our eyes.

And they will come to the fortress of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and they will go forth to the south of Judah to the Well of the Oath.

And Baasha, king of Israel, will come up against Judah, and he will build Ramah, so that he will not give to go out or to come in to Asa king of Judah.

And the sons of Gad will build Dibon and Ataroth, and Aroer, And Atroth, Shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, And the house of Nimrah, and the house of Haran, fortified cities: and sheep-folds.

And we shall take all his cities in that time, and there was not a city which we took not from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, from the kingdom of Og in Bashan All these cities fortified with high walls, doors and bars; besides of cities of the open country exceedingly many.

And the cities of fortification, Ziddim, Zur and Hammath, Rakkath and Cinneroth, And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, And Kadesh and Edrei and the Fountain of Hazor,read more.
And Iron, and Migdol-El, Ho-rem, and the Mouse of Affliction, and the House of the Sun; nineteen cities and their enclosures.

And the king went, and his men, to Jerusalem to the Jebusite dwelling in the land: and he will say to David, saying, Thou shalt not come here for except thy taking away the blind and the lame, saying, David shall not come in hither. And David will take the fastness of Zion: this the city of David.

And David will go, and all Israel to Jerusalem; this is Jebus; and there the Jebusites dwelling in the land. And they dwelling in Jebus will say to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. And David will take the castle of Zion, this the city of David.

The son of Geber in Ramoth-Gilead; to him Havoth-Jair son of Manasseh, which was in Gilead; to him a portion of Ergab which is in Bashan, sixty great cities, with a wall and bars of brass.

And Jeroboam will build Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwell in it; and he will go forth from there and build Penuel.

And he passed upon thee in all thy gates until the coming down of thy high and inaccessible fortresses which thou trustest in them in all thy land: and he passed upon thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

The wealth of the rich his strong city: the destruction of the poor their poverty.

Say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold me profaning my holy place, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the pity of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom ye left, shall fall by the sword.

And to the God of fortresses he shall do honor upon his place: and to a god which his fathers knew not he shall do honor with gold and with silver, and with precious stone, and with desires. And he did to the strong fortifications with a strange god whom he recognized, he shall multiply honor: and he caused them to rule over many, and he will divide the land for a price.

If Babel shall go up to the heavens, and if she shall fortify the height of her strength, from me shall they laying waste come to her, says Jehovah.

For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled: And upon all the cedars of Lebanon being high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills being lifted up,read more.
And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the flags of desire. And the haughtiness of man was bowed down, and the height of man was humbled: and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day. And the nothings he shall cause to wholly pass away.

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus being taken away from a city, and it was a falling heap of rubbish. The cities of Aroer were forsaken : they shall be for flocks, and they lay down, and none terrifying. And the fortress ceased from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram: they shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, says Jehovah of armies.

For thou didst set from a city to a heap, a fortified city to ruins: a palace of strangers from a city; it shall not be built forever.

Against Moab thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Wo to Nebo for it was laid waste: Kiriathaim was ashamed and taken: Misgab was ashamed and terrified.

Jehovah swallowed up, not pitying, all the seats of Jacob: he pulled down in his wrath the fortresses of the daughter of Judah; he caused to touch to the earth: he defiled the kingdom and her chiefs.

And I sent fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of the son of Hadad.

And I will send a fire upon Moab and it devoured the palaces of the cities, and Moab died with tumult, with a loud noise and with the voice of the trumpet:

All thy fortresses, fig trees with the early figs: if they shall be shaken, and they fell into the mouth of him eating

And Jehovah will be a height for the oppressed one, a height for times in straits.

And he will say, Jehovah my rock and my fastness and my deliverer; The God of my rock; I will trust in him: My shield and the horn of my salvation, my height and my refuge; My saviour; thou wilt save me from violence.

Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, I will put my trust in him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my height.

Incline thine ear to me, hastening to deliver me: be to me for a rock of strength, for a house of fortresses to save me. For thou my rock and my fortress; and for sake of thy name thou wilt guide me, and thou wilt protect me.

His strength for thee will I watch: for God my height

My mercy and my fortress, my height and delivering for me; my shield, and in him I put my trust; treading down peoples under me.

In the fear of Jehovah the trust of strength, and to his sons a refuge.

For thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, and didst not remember the rock of thy fortress, for this, thou shalt plant pleasant plants, and thou shalt sow it with vine shoots of the stranger.

For thou wert a fortress to the poor, a fortress to the needy in straits; to him a refuge from the inundation, a shadow from the heat when the wind of the terrible ones as the inundation of the wall.

Jehovah is good for a fortress in the day of straits; and he knew those trusting in him.