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Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.
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On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
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So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.
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So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.
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But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
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David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.
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The Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?
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And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.
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So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
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David Defeats the Philistines
When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.
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my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior— from violent people you save me.
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They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.
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At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.
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At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.
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Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were brave warriors, ready for battle and able to handle the shield and spear. Their faces were the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles in the mountains.
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Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.
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It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night; a rocky crag is its stronghold.
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Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
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The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
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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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They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.
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Psalm 27
Of David.
The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?
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The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.
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You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
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“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”
