Bible Dictionary: Fortresses: Places Used as Strong Towers

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Chronicles 26:9
Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Our Stronghold
... provided strongholds for their people; mountain fortresses where the ... a man that dwells
in the secret places of the ... weapon is there that can be used against us? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/our stronghold.htm

Asa's Reformation, and Consequent Peace and victory
... our narrative in stating that the 'high places' were not ... And he used the time of
repose to strengthen ... give leisure for building not only fortresses, but temples ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture g/asas reformation and consequent peace.htm

The First Theban Empire
... OF THE NILE BETWEEN THE TWO FORTRESSES OF SEMNEH ... scattered along the littoral;
watering-places, at some ... these the Egyptian merchant-vessels used as victualling ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... stretched the valley of the Nile, bristling with fortresses, Khininsu, Oxyrhynchus ...
None of these places can be ... reach of the Assyrians, since it was used as a ...
/.../chapter iiisargon of assyria 722-705.htm

Paragraphs from Notable Speeches
... strife; you tread upon the high places of the ... is the strongest argument that can
be used for an ... desolation envelops towns, palaces, and fortresses; the heavens ...
/.../paragraphs from notable speeches.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... the first time among Syrian places in the ... suitable for the construction of fortresses
hardly ever ... conventional representation, and was sometimes used to denote ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
... cities and towns, scattered about in places where there ... lady," is here merely an
epithet used for Ishtar ... one after another, razed their fortresses, smote the ...
/.../chapter iithe rise of the.htm

The Memphite Empire
... by experience, avoid a sojourn in places where tempests ... Their arms were those commonly
used by the ... These primitive fortresses were strong enough to overawe ...
/.../chapter iithe memphite empire.htm

Babylonia and Assyria
... or Kyaxares of Karu-Kassi, attacked the fortresses which defended ... and stars were
fixed in their places, and laws ... sixty shekels, and the standard used in later ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... body of the army, and was not used in independent ... cession of some few small towns
or fortresses to the ... capital, and some half-dozen lesser places, among them ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

Subtopics

Fortresses

Fortresses: Afforded Protection in Danger

Fortresses: Christ, the Defence of Saints

Fortresses: Defended Against Enemies

Fortresses: God's Protection

Fortresses: Often: Deserted

Fortresses: Often: Destruction of, Threatened

Fortresses: Often: Entered by the Enemy

Fortresses: Often: Levelled

Fortresses: Often: Spoiled

Fortresses: Places Fortified by Art