Towers

So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously until he became powerful.

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

Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.

March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

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

Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.

…a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.