Found 307 Results for: Fortified Cities
He imposed his authority on the Philistines as far as Gaza, and seized their land from the watchtowers to the fortified cities. (2 Kings 18, 8)
The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. (2 Kings 18, 11)
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up and invaded Judah; he laid siege to all the fortified cities and seized all of them. (2 Kings 18, 13)
Have you not heard how I decreed it long ago, how I planned from days of old what now I have brought to pass? Your ordained role was to lay waste fortified cities, to turn them into ruinous heaps. (2 Kings 19, 25)
The kings of Judah had appointed pagan priests who offered sacrifices in the sanctuaries on the hills, in the different cities of Judah and in the suburbs of Jerusalem. Josiah did away with them and with those who offered incense to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the stars and all the heavenly host. (2 Kings 23, 5)
Right after this he made all the priests from the cities of Judah come to Jerusalem, and he destroyed all the sanctuaries on the hills where they had offered sacrifice from Beersheba in the south to Geba in the north. He destroyed the Sanctuary of the Gates that was at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city governor. It was on the left side of the entrance gate to the city. (2 Kings 23, 8)
Josiah also removed all the sanctuaries on the hills in the cities of Samaria. These sanctuaries had been made by the kings of Israel and they had provoked the anger of Yahweh. The king destroyed them and did to them as he had done to the temple of Bethel. (2 Kings 23, 19)
and also the clans living in Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites and Mishraites. The people of the cities of Zorah and Eshtaol belonged to these clans. (1 Chronicles 2, 53)
David was then on a fortified hill, and a group of Philistines had occupied Bethlehem. (1 Chronicles 11, 16)
They hired thirty-two thousand chariots; also the king of Maacah with his army. These came and encamped before Medeba, while the Ammonites came out from all their cities and got ready to fight. (1 Chronicles 19, 7)
Should there be famine in the land or epidemic or the crops are destroyed by scorching winds or swarms of locusts, should this people's enemies lay siege to one of their cities, if there is any plague or sickness, (2 Chronicles 6, 28)
He rebuilt Upper beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified towns with walls and gates and bars, (2 Chronicles 8, 5)
