Concordance

“Fortress” in the Bible

53 verses contain “fortress” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible.

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2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
2 Samuel 5:9 So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
2 Samuel 12:26 Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
2 Samuel 22:2 He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strong fortress and He makes my way clear.
2 Samuel 24:7 They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.
2 Kings 8:12 …he 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…
1 Chronicles 11:5 The people of Jebus said to David, “You will never get in here.” Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
1 Chronicles 11:7 So David took up residence in the fortress; that is why it was called the City of David.
1 Chronicles 27:25 … in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the…
2 Chronicles 11:11 He strengthened their fortresses and put officers in them, with supplies of food, oil, and wine.
2 Chronicles 17:12 Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah
2 Chronicles 27:4 He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.
Ezra 6:2 And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
Nehemiah 7:2 Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.
Psalms 18:2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalms 31:3 For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
Psalms 46:7 The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalms 46:11 The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalms 48:3 God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
Psalms 59:9 I will keep watch for You, O my strength, because You, O God, are my fortress.
Psalms 59:16 But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
Psalms 59:17 To You, O my strength, I sing praises, for You, O God, are my fortress, my God of loving devotion.
Psalms 62:2 He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
Psalms 62:6 He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.
Psalms 71:3 Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
Psalms 91:2 I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Psalms 122:7 May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”
Psalms 144:2 He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
Isaiah 13:22 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.
Isaiah 17:3 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Isaiah 25:2 Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 25:12 The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
Isaiah 33:16 he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
Isaiah 34:13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Jeremiah 6:5 Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”
Jeremiah 9:21 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.
Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited…
Jeremiah 48:1 … devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and…
Jeremiah 48:18 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.
Jeremiah 49:27 “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
Daniel 11:7 But one from her family line will rise up in his place, come against the army of the king of the North, and enter his fortress, fighting and prevailing.
Daniel 11:10 …like a flood, and will again carry the battle as far as his…
Daniel 11:19 After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.
Daniel 11:31 His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
Daniel 11:38 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.
Daniel 11:39 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…
Hosea 10:14 …r 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…
Nahum 2:1 One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
Nahum 3:12 All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
Nahum 3:14 Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
Habakkuk 1:10 They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.
Zechariah 9:3 Tyre has built herself a fortress;she has heaped up silver like dust,and gold like the dirt of the streets.