'Stronghold' in the Bible

and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold in the proper arrangement, and take a second bull and offer [it as] a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you will cut down.

So {he brought them before the king of Moab}, and they stayed with him all the days David was in the stronghold.

Then Gad the prophet said to David, "You should not stay in the stronghold; leave and go into the land of Judah." So David left and came [to] the forest of Hereth.

So David swore [this on oath] to Saul, and Saul went to his house, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

When [the] Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel, all [the] Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard and went down to the stronghold.

I take refuge in God, my rock, my shield, and the {strength} of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence!

Now at that time, David [was] in the stronghold, and a garrison of [the] Philistines [was] in Bethlehem at that [same] time

And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You will not enter here." But David captured the stronghold of Zion; that [is,] the city of David.

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

It lives [on the] rock and spends the night {on the rock point and the mountain stronghold}.

And Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of distress.

Yahweh [is] my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.

Yahweh of hosts [is] with us; our [high] stronghold [is] the God of Jacob. Selah

Yahweh of Hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our [high] stronghold.

God [is] in her citadels; he is known as a [high] stronghold.

O my strength, I will watch for you, because [you], O God, [are] my (high) stronghold.

But as for me, I will sing [of] your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my [high] stronghold and a refuge in my {time} of trouble.

O my strength, to you I will give praise, because God [is] my [high] stronghold, my God of loyal love.

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be shaken.

But Yahweh has become my [high] stronghold, and my God [has become] my rock of refuge.

my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and [one] in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me.

A stronghold for the upright is the way of Yahweh, but ruin [belongs] to {evildoers}.

To a city of warriors, the wise ascends, and he will bring down the stronghold--its object of trust.

And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, all those who fight [against] her and her stronghold, and those who inflict her shall be like dream, a vision of [the] night.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in [the] day of distress, to you [the] nations will come from the ends of [the] earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.

"And you, son of man, [will it] not [be that] on the day {when I take from them} their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their inner self, their sons and daughters--

I will pour out my rage over Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the crowd of No.

"Thus you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{As I live}, {surely} whoever [is] in the ruins, by the sword they will fall, and whoever [is] on the surface of the open field, I will give him to the animals to eat him, and whoever [is] in the stronghold and in the cave, they will die by the plague.

And a branch from her roots will rise up [in] his place, and he will come against the army and he will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and he will take action against them and he will prevail.

And military forces from him {will occupy} and will profane the {sanctuary stronghold}, and they will abolish the regular burnt offering, and they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.