Bulwark
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General scriptures concerning
Deut 20:20; 2 Chr 26:15; Eccl 9:14
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy 20:2015 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.
2 Chronicles 26:1514 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Ecclesiastes 9:14 -
Figurative
Ps 48:13; Isa 26:1
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Psalms 48:131 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Isaiah 26:1
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
