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Want to know what the Bible says about Fortresses? Here are 19 Bible verses about Fortresses from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Numbers 24:21 NIV
Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message:
“Your dwelling place is secure,
    your nest is set in a rock;
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Jeremiah 51:53 NIV
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens
    and fortifies her lofty stronghold,
    I will send destroyers against her,”
declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 33:16 NIV
they are the ones who will dwell on the heights,
    whose refuge will be the mountain fortress.
Their bread will be supplied,
    and water will not fail them.
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Daniel 11:10 NIV
His sons will prepare for war and assemble a great army, which will sweep on like an irresistible flood and carry the battle as far as his fortress.
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Judges 9:31 NIV
Under cover he sent messengers to Abimelek, saying, “Gaal son of Ebed and his clan have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.
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Nehemiah 4:2 NIV
and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble —burned as they are?”
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Judges 6:2 NIV
Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.
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2 Chronicles 11:11 NIV
He strengthened their defenses and put commanders in them, with supplies of food, olive oil and wine.
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2 Samuel 5:9 NIV
David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward.
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Isaiah 25:12 NIV
He will bring down your high fortified walls
    and lay them low;
he will bring them down to the ground,
    to the very dust.
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2 Chronicles 26:9 NIV
Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them.
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Nahum 2:1 NIV
An attacker advances against you, Nineveh.
    Guard the fortress,
    watch the road,
    brace yourselves,
    marshal all your strength!
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Daniel 11:7 NIV
“One from her family line will arise to take her place. He will attack the forces of the king of the North and enter his fortress; he will fight against them and be victorious.
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Hosea 10:14 NIV
the roar of battle will rise against your people,
    so that all your fortresses will be devastated
as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle,
    when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
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Isaiah 34:13 NIV
Thorns will overrun her citadels,
    nettles and brambles her strongholds.
She will become a haunt for jackals,
    a home for owls.
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Isaiah 17:3 NIV
The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
    and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
    like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
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Psalm 18:2 NIV
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.
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Jeremiah 16:19 NIV
Lord, my strength and my fortress,
    my refuge in time of distress,
to you the nations will come
    from the ends of the earth and say,
“Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,
    worthless idols that did them no good.
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Jeremiah 6:27 NIV
“I have made you a tester of metals
    and my people the ore,
that you may observe
    and test their ways.
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