'Stronghold' in the Bible

and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down."

When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.

All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

The prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built around from Millo and inward.

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.

David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

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 Beersheba.

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You shall not come in here." Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is the city of David.

David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

Of the Gadites there separated themselves to 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 on the mountains;

There came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.

On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has 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, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

For you have 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 dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.

I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.