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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Judges 9:31

So he covertly sent messengers to Abimelech to say, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications 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.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications 2 Kings 25:1

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications 2 Chronicles 11:11

He strengthened their fortresses and put officers in them, with supplies of food, oil, and wine.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications 2 Chronicles 26:9

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

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Nehemiah 3:8

Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs, and next to him, Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Nehemiah 4:2

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Isaiah 22:10

You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Isaiah 25:12

The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Isaiah 29:3

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

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Jeremiah 6:6

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Jeremiah 32:24

See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Jeremiah 33:4

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Ezekiel 4:2

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Ezekiel 17:17

Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Ezekiel 21:22

In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Ezekiel 26:8

He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Ezekiel 33:27

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Daniel 11:15, 19

Then the king of the North will come, build up a siege ramp, and capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their best troops will not be able to resist. / After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Nahum 2:1

One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!

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Armies: March in Ranks: Fortifications Nahum 3:14

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

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