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Towers Scripture - 2 Chronicles 14:7

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered....

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Towers Scripture - Isaiah 32:14

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;...

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Towers Scripture - Isaiah 23:13

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to ruin....

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Tower in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

tou'-er. See FORTIFICATION, I, 5; CITY, II, 1....

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Towers Scripture - 2 Chronicles 32:5

Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance....

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Tower in Naves Topical Bible

Of Babel Ge 11:1-9 -Of Edar Ge 35:21 -Of Penuel Jud 8:8,9,17 -Of Shechem Jud 9:46,49 -Of Meah Ne 3:1; 12:39 -Of Hananeel Ne 3:1; 12:39; Jer 31:38; Zec 14:10 -Of David So 4:4 -Of Syene Eze 29:10 -Of Siloam Lu 13:4 -In the walls of Jerusalem 2Ch 26:9; 32:5; Ne 12:38,39 -Of other cities 2Ch 14:7 -In the desert 2Ch 26:10 -For wa...

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Towers Scripture - 2 Chronicles 26:15

And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong....

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Tower in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Watch-towers or fortified posts in frontier or exposed situations are mentioned in Scripture, as the tower of Edar, etc., Ge 35:21; Isa 21:5,8,11; Mic 4:8 etc.; the tower of Lebanon. 2Sa 8:6 Besides these military structures, we read in Scripture of towers built in vineyards as an almost necessary appendage to them. 1Sa 5:2; Mt 22:33; Mr 12:1 ...

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Towers Scripture - 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....

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Towers in Easton's Bible Dictionary

of Babel (Gen. 11:4), Edar (Gen. 35:21), Penuel (Judg. 8:9, 17), Shechem (9:46), David (Cant. 4:4), Lebanon (7:4), Syene (Ezek. 29:10), Hananeel (Zech. 14:10), Siloam (Luke 13:4). There were several towers in Jerusalem (2 Chr. 26:9; Ps. 48:12). They were erected for various purposes, as watch-towers in vineyard (Isa. 5:2; Matt. 21:33) and...

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