9 occurrences

'Defenses' in the Bible

What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there."

The prophet visited the king of Israel and instructed him, "Go, fortify your defenses. Determine what you must do, for in the spring the king of Syria will attack you."

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Consider its defenses! Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!

They removed the defenses of Judah. At that time you looked for the weapons in the House of the Forest.

For I, the Lord God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians:

Now the cistern where Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of those he had killed was a large one that King Asa had constructed as part of his defenses against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with dead bodies.

They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.

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