Fortresses

“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the royal storehouses. Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the fortresses.

Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah

He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.

May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.

And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his fathers did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.

He will attack the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him, making them rulers over many and distributing the land for a price.

…the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!