Nahum 3:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

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  • Nah 2:1 : 1 The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.
  • 2 Chr 32:3-4 : 3 He consulted with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains outside the city, and they helped him. 4 So many people gathered together and stopped all the fountains and the brook that ran through the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
  • 2 Chr 32:11 : 11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give yourselves up to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  • Isa 8:9 : 9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and listen, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
  • Isa 22:9-9 : 9 You have also seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall. 11 You also made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but you have not looked to its maker, neither had respect to him who fashioned it long ago.
  • Isa 37:25 : 25 I have dug, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
  • Jer 46:3-4 : 3 Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; polish the spears, and put on the armor.
  • Jer 46:9 : 9 Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men come forth: the Ethiopians and the Libyans, who handle the shield; and the Lydians, who handle and bend the bow.
  • Joel 3:9-9 : 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake 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 Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:11-13
    3 verses
    80%

    11You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

    12All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

    13Behold, your people in your midst are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.

  • Ezek 4:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1You also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before you, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

    2And lay siege against it, build a fort against it, and throw up a ramp against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around.

    3Moreover, take an iron pan and set it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

  • Nah 3:15
    78%

    15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • Nah 2:1
    76%

    1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • Jer 10:17
    75%

    17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • Jer 1:18
    75%

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

  • Ezek 26:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you.

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Joel 3:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake 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 you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, and stop up all the springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones."

  • Isa 29:3
    72%

    3And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will raise forts against you.

  • Gen 11:3
    72%

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

  • Isa 37:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25I have dug, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

    26Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Isa 25:12
    72%

    12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Ezek 26:12
    72%

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

  • Isa 62:10
    72%

    10Pass through, pass through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; remove the stones; lift up a banner for the people.

  • Jer 46:3
    71%

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

  • Nah 2:5
    71%

    5He shall recount his nobles: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.

  • Ezek 12:5
    71%

    5Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your belongings out through it.

  • Amos 4:3
    71%

    3And you shall go out at the breaches, each cow straight ahead, and you shall cast them into the palace, says the LORD.

  • Jer 43:9
    71%

    9Take large stones in your hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick kiln, 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 dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

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

  • Isa 2:15
    71%

    15And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

  • Ezek 13:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

    12Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?'

  • Amos 5:9
    71%

    9That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

  • Jer 6:4
    71%

    4Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

  • Ezek 38:12
    71%

    12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

  • Isa 22:10
    71%

    10And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.

  • Deut 28:52
    71%

    52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Isa 30:14
    71%

    14And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the pit.

  • Dan 11:15
    71%

    15So the king of the north shall come, and build a siege mound, and take the fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not withstand him, neither his chosen people, nor shall there be any strength to withstand.

  • Isa 3:25
    70%

    25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

  • Jer 6:27
    70%

    27I have set you as a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and test their way.

  • Isa 54:2
    70%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:16
    70%

    16And he said, "Thus says the LORD: 'Make this valley full of ditches.'

  • Zeph 1:16
    70%

    16A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.

  • Eccl 9:14
    70%

    14There was a little city with few men in it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great siege works against it.

  • Hos 8:14
    70%

    14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • Ezek 21:20
    70%

    20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Jer 29:5
    70%

    5Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Jer 51:27
    70%

    27Set up a banner 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 captain against her, cause the horses to come up like the braying locusts.

  • Jer 4:5
    70%

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