Towers
31 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
24 sections
- Babel
- David
- Edar
- Frequently Left Desolate
- Frequently Strong and Well Fortified
- Frequently Thrown Down in War
- Frequently Very High
- God As the Protector of his People
- Hananeel
- Jezreel
- Lebanon
- Meah
- Ministers
- Mount Sion
- Origin and Antiquity of
- Penuel
- Shechem
- Siloam
- Syene
- The Grace and Dignity of the Church
- The Name of the Lord
- The Proud and Haughty
- Thebez
- Watchmen Posted On, in Times of Danger
Babel
- Genesis 11:9 That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
David
- Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
Edar
- Genesis 35:21 Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.
Frequently Left Desolate
- 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 —
- Zephaniah 3:6 “I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.
Frequently Strong and Well Fortified
- Judges 9:51 But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
- 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.
Frequently Thrown Down in War
- Judges 8:17 He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
- Judges 9:49 So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
- Ezekiel 26:4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
Frequently Very High
- Isaiah 2:15 against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
God As the Protector of his People
- 2 Samuel 22:3 My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.
- 2 Samuel 22:51 Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
- Psalm 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.
- Psalm 61:3 For You have been my refuge, a tower of strength against the enemy.
Hananeel
- Jeremiah 31:38 “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
- Zechariah 14:10 All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the …
Jezreel
- 2 Kings 9:17 Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
Lebanon
- Song of Solomon 7:4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
Meah
- Nehemiah 12:39 over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
Ministers
- Jeremiah 6:27 “I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
Mount Sion
- Micah 4:8 And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion — the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”
Origin and Antiquity of
- Genesis 11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
Penuel
- Judges 8:17 He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
Shechem
- Judges 9:46 On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
Siloam
- Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
Syene
- Ezekiel 29:10 therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
- Ezekiel 30:6 For this is what the LORD says: The allies of Egypt will fall, and her proud strength will collapse. From Migdol to Syene they will fall by the sword within her, declares the Lord GOD.
The Grace and Dignity of the Church
- Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
- Song of Solomon 7:4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
- Song of Solomon 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
The Name of the Lord
- Proverbs 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
The Proud and Haughty
- Isaiah 2:15 against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
- Isaiah 30:25 And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Thebez
- Judges 9:50–51 Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it. …
Watchmen Posted On, in Times of Danger
- 2 Kings 9:17 Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
- Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.