Tower

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 11:1-9 OT

  The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had…

• Genesis 35:21 OT

  Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

• Judges 8:8 OT

  He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

• Judges 8:9 OT

  He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”

• Judges 8:17 OT

  He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.

• Judges 9:46 OT

  When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.

• Judges 9:49 OT

  All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and…

• Nehemiah 3:1 OT

  Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

• Nehemiah 12:39 OT

  and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

• Jeremiah 31:38 OT

  “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

• Zechariah 14:10 OT

  All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of…

• Song of Solomon 4:4 OT

  Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

• Ezekiel 29:10 OT

  therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.

• Luke 13:4 NT

  Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

• 2 Chronicles 26:9 OT

  Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

• 2 Chronicles 32:5 OT

  He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

• Nehemiah 12:38 OT

  The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,

• 2 Chronicles 14:7 OT

  For he said to Judah, “Let’s build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So…

• 2 Chronicles 26:10 OT

  He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

• 2 Kings 9:17 OT

  Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’ ”

• 2 Kings 18:8 OT

  He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

• Matthew 21:33 NT

  “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

• Luke 14:28 NT

  For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

• Luke 14:29 NT

  Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,