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Then, in an encounter with the army of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand men, and took control of the fortified cities. They divided the abundant plunder into equal shares among themselves, those who had been tortured, the orphans, the widows and the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
At least nine thousand men took refuge in the two towers that were strongly fortified with everything they needed to withstand a prolonged siege. (2 Maccabees 10, 18)
Judas attacked a city strongly fortified with ditches and walls. The city was called Caspin. People of every race lived there. (2 Maccabees 12, 13)
Hezekiah fortified his city and brought water within its walls, tunneling the rock with iron tools to construct cisterns. (Ecclesiasticus 48, 17)
The High Priest Simon, son of Onias, repaired the sanctuary and fortified the Temple during his lifetime. (Ecclesiasticus 50, 1)
Anxious lest his people might perish, he fortified the city against a siege. (Ecclesiasticus 50, 4)
against every high tower and fortified walls, (Isaiah 2, 15)
For the fortified city is abandoned: it lies deserted now, a forsaken habitation left like a wilderness. There the calves graze, there they lie down, and there they strip bare its branches. (Isaiah 27, 10)
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. (Isaiah 36, 1)
But have you not heard how I decreed it long ago? I have just brought to pass what I planned from days of old: to lay waste fortified cities, to turn them into heaps of ruins. (Isaiah 37, 26)
See, I will make you a fortified city, a pillar of iron with walls of bronze, against all the nations, against the kings and princes of Judah, against the priests and the people of the land. (Jeremiah 1, 18)
Announce this in Judah, proclaim it in Jerusalem. Sound the trumpet through the land; shout aloud and say: "Assemble and go to the fortified cities! (Jeremiah 4, 5)
