Numbers 13:19 and what the land 'is' in which it is dwelling, whether it 'is' good or bad; and what 'are' the cities in which it is dwelling, whether in camps or in fortresses; (See NIV)
Numbers 13:28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)
Numbers 21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. (See NIV)
Numbers 32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Numbers 32:36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 1:28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying,'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'" (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)
Deuteronomy 3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)
Deuteronomy 28:52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 10:20 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 14:12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke." (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 19:29 The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib; (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 19:35 The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth, (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 6:18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 20:6 David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than did Absalom. Take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight." (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 24:7 and they came to the fortified city of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and went out to the south of Judah, to Beer-sheba. (DBY)
1 Kings 12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel. (See NIV)
1 Kings 15:17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. (See NAS NIV)
1 Kings 16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria. (See RSV)
1 Kings 22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? (See NIV)
2 Kings 3:19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'" (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael saith, 'Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, 'Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel -- their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.' (See NIV)
2 Kings 10:2 "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 17:9 The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 18:8 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 19:25 Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 8:5 Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 11:10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 11:11 He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
2 Chronicles 11:23 He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought for them many wives. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 12:4 He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 14:6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. (See NAS NIV)
2 Chronicles 16:6 Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah. (See NAS)
2 Chronicles 17:2 He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 17:19 These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 19:5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 21:3 Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 32:1 After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 32:5 And he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and built another wall outside, and fortified the Millo of the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. (DBY)
2 Chronicles 33:14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 36:19 They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it. (See NAS)
Nehemiah 3:8 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)
Nehemiah 9:25 They took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: so they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 60:9 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me unto Edom? (JPS RSV NIV)
Psalms 108:10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom? (WEB JPS ASV RSV NIV)
Proverbs 10:15 The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction. (See NIV)
Proverbs 18:11 The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart. (See NIV)
Proverbs 18:19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle. (WEB NIV)
Isaiah 2:15 For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall, (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 13:22 And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come 'is' her time, And her days are not drawn out! (See NAS)
Isaiah 17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. (See NAS NIV)
Isaiah 25:2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 25:12 And the high fortress of thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust. (See NIV)
Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs, an enclosure for ostriches. (See NAS)
Isaiah 36:1 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 37:26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 1:18 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 4:5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land! Cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 5:17 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 15:20 I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 34:7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 48:18 Come down from honour, sit in thirst, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, For a spoiler of Moab hath come up to thee, He hath destroyed thy fenced places. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 49:27 I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. (See NAS)
Ezekiel 19:7 And it knoweth his forsaken habitations, And their cities it hath laid waste, And desolate is the land and its fulness, Because of the voice of his roaring. (See NAS)
Ezekiel 21:20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee: who was there like Tyre, fortified in the midst of the sea? (JPS)
Ezekiel 36:35 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 11:24 In time of peace shall he enter even into the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance, and he shall plan his devices against the fortified places, even for a time. (DBY)
Hosea 8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses." Zechariah (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Amos 5:9 Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled against a fortress cometh. (See NIV)
Micah 7:12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. (KJV WBS)
Habakkuk 1:10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them. (See NIV)
Zephaniah 1:16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements. (WEB JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)