'Stronghold' in the Bible

and build an altar to the LORD your God on top of this stronghold in an orderly manner. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering using the wood from the Asherah that you'll be cutting down."

David left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time David was in the stronghold.

The prophet Gad told David, "Don't remain in the stronghold. Go and enter the territory of Judah." So David left and went into the forest of Hereth.

David made this vow to Saul, and then Saul went home, while David and his men went up to the stronghold.

Even so, David captured the stronghold of Zion, which is now known as the City of David.

When the Philistines eventually learned that Israel had anointed David to be king over Israel, they marched out in search of him. But David heard about it and retreated to his stronghold.

Meanwhile, Joab attacked the Ammonite city of Rabbah and captured its stronghold.

This is what he said: LORD, you are my stone stronghold and my fortified place; you are continuously delivering me.

David was living in that stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was then at Bethlehem.

When he arrived at the stronghold, Gehazi took the bags from their custody and hid them away in the house. Then he sent the men away and they left.

David was living in that stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was then at Bethlehem.

Mighty and experienced warriors from the descendants of Gad joined David at his wilderness stronghold. They were expert handlers of both shield and spear, with hardened looks and as agile as a gazelle on a mountain slope.

Later, some descendants of Benjamin and Judah approached David at his stronghold,

He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold.

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my stronghold in whom I take refuge, my shield, the glory of my salvation, and my high tower."

Foreigners will wilt away; they will come trembling out of their stronghold.

But the LORD is my stronghold, and my God, the rock, is my refuge.

Gilead and Manasseh belong to me, while Ephraim is my chief stronghold and Judah is my scepter.

Wail, you ships of Tarshish, because your stronghold is destroyed!"

For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat for the blistering attack from the ruthless is like a rainstorm beating against a wall,

Their stronghold will vanish by reason of terror, and their commanders will be filled with alarm because of the battle standard," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of difficulty, to you the nations will come, and from the ends of the earth they'll say, "Surely our ancestors inherited deception, things that are worthless, and in which there is no profit."

"And you, watchtower of the flock, you stronghold of the daughter of Zion, it will happen even to you: The former dominion, even the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem, will come.