'Stronghold' in the Bible
and build an altar unto Jehovah thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.
And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the stronghold.
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
And when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
And David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beer-sheba.
And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold unto David.
On the cliff she dwelleth, and maketh her home, Upon the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.
But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah; He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.
And I will pour my wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that take refuge in him.
Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.
And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.