Quotes about Strongholds
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
- 1 Samuel 23:29
Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
- 2 Samuel 22:46
Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
- Psalm 18:45
The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
- Isaiah 23:11
Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 48:41
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
- Lamentations 2:5
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
- Ezekiel 19:7
Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.
- Ezekiel 33:27
In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.
- Daniel 11:24
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
- Amos 3:11
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- 2 Corinthians 10:4
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds' (2 Cor. 10:3-4). The Greek word translated as strongholds is ochuroma (pronounced oak-EW-ROH-muh), which means to fortify, lock up, or imprison. This is what our enemy tries to do to us. He lies to us until we're convinced that we're stuck and can never escape our problems.
- Craig Groeschel