Nahum 3:14

American Standard Version (1901)

Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

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Referenced Verses

  • Nah 2:1 : 1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
  • 2 Chr 32:3-4 : 3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city; and they helped him. 4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
  • 2 Chr 32:11 : 11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  • Isa 8:9 : 9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.
  • Isa 22:9-9 : 9 And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool; 10 and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall; 11 ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.
  • Isa 37:25 : 25 I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
  • Jer 46:3-4 : 3 Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
  • Jer 46:9 : 9 Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.
  • Joel 3:9-9 : 9 Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:11-13
    3 verses
    80%

    11Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

    12All thy fortresses shall be [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

    13Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.

  • Ezek 4:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:

    2and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

    3And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

  • Nah 3:15
    78%

    15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

  • Nah 2:1
    76%

    1He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

  • Jer 10:17
    75%

    17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

  • Jer 1:18
    75%

    18For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler against thee.

    9And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

  • Joel 3:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

    10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    73%

    19And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

  • Isa 29:3
    72%

    3And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.

  • Gen 11:3
    72%

    3And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

  • Isa 37:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

    26Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Isa 25:12
    72%

    12And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Ezek 26:12
    72%

    12And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

  • Isa 62:10
    72%

    10Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.

  • Jer 46:3
    71%

    3Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

  • Nah 2:5
    71%

    5He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

  • Ezek 12:5
    71%

    5Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

  • Amos 4:3
    71%

    3And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast [yourselves] into Harmon, saith Jehovah.

  • Jer 43:9
    71%

    9Take great stones in thy hand, and hide them in mortar in the brickwork, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

  • 2 Kgs 19:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

    25Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Isa 2:15
    71%

    15and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,

  • Ezek 13:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11say unto them that daub it with untempered [mortar], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

    12Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

  • Amos 5:9
    71%

    9that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

  • Jer 6:4
    71%

    4Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

  • Ezek 38:12
    71%

    12to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth.

  • Isa 22:10
    71%

    10and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;

  • Deut 28:52
    71%

    52And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • Isa 30:14
    71%

    14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

  • Dan 11:15
    71%

    15So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand.

  • Isa 3:25
    70%

    25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

  • Jer 6:27
    70%

    27I have made thee a trier [and] a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

  • Isa 54:2
    70%

    2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

  • 2 Kgs 3:16
    70%

    16And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches.

  • Zeph 1:16
    70%

    16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

  • Eccl 9:14
    70%

    14There 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.

  • Hos 8:14
    70%

    14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

  • Ezek 21:20
    70%

    20Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Jer 29:5
    70%

    5Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

  • Jer 51:27
    70%

    27Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

  • Jer 4:5
    70%

    5Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.