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Ask a QuestionAnd it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
"For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it -
For Tyre built herself a tower, Heaped up silver like the dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.
"Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
Malchijah the son of Harim and Hashub the son of PahathMo'ab repaired another section, as well as the Tower of the Ovens.
Moreover the Nethinim who dwelt in Ophel made repairs as far as the place in front of the Water Gate toward the east, and on the projecting tower.
Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz.
"You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second set.
"Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
After them the Tekoites repaired another section, next to the great projecting tower, and as far as the wall of Ophel.
Your neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armory, On which hang a thousand bucklers, All shields of mighty men.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
So he also spoke to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come back in peace, I will tear down this tower!"
Now when all the men of the tower of Shechem had heard that, they entered the stronghold of the temple of the god Berith.
" He is the tower of salvation to His king, And shows mercy to His anointed, To David and his descendants forevermore."
My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
So he said to his servants, "See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.