Abimelech came and attacked the tower. When he approached the entrance of the tower to set it on fire,

Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!

Your neck is like a tower made of ivory. Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.

Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were in one place.

He built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.

The name of the Lord is like a strong tower; the righteous person runs to it and is set safely on high.

for every high tower, for every fortified wall,

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

He also threatened the men of Penuel, warning, “When I return victoriously, I will tear down this tower.”

When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard the news, they went to the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.

and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.

After them the men of Tekoa worked on another section, from opposite the great protruding tower to the wall of Ophel.

Indeed, you are my shelter, a strong tower that protects me from the enemy.

Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stones; one thousand shields are hung on it – all shields of valiant warriors.

His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.

The Beloved: I was a wall, and my breasts were like fortress towers. Then I found favor in his eyes.

Your mind will recall the terror you experienced, and you will ask yourselves, “Where is the scribe? Where is the one who weighs the money? Where is the one who counts the towers?”

“Indeed a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate.