Lexicon :: Strong's H4026 - miḡdāl

When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard about it, they entered the inner chamber (stronghold) of the [fn]temple of El-berith (the god of a covenant).

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the crowd with Jehu as he approached, and said, “I see a company.” And [fn]Joram said, “Send a horseman to meet them and have him ask, ‘[fn]Do you come in peace?’”

Azmaveth the son of Adiel was in charge of the king’s storerooms; and Jonathan the son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the towers.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests and built [fn]the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors; and they consecrated the wall [westward] to the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.

The second [fn]choir went to the left; I followed with half of the people on the wall, above the Tower of the Furnaces, to the Broad Wall,

Walk about Zion, go all around her;

Count her towers,

For You have been a shelter and a refuge for me,

A strong tower against the enemy.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower;

The righteous runs to it and is safe and set on high [far above evil].

“Your neck is like the tower of David,

Built with rows of [glistening] stones,

Whereon hang a thousand shields,

All of them shields of warriors.

“His cheeks are like a bed of balsam,

Banks of sweet, fragrant herbs.

His lips are lilies

Dripping sweet-scented myrrh.

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes the [sparkling] pools of Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

Which looks toward Damascus.

(The Shulammite Bride)

“I was a wall, and my breasts were like the towers.

Then I became in the king’s eyes

As one [to be respected and allowed] to find peace.

Against every high tower,

Against every fortified wall,

He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,

And planted it with [fn]the choicest vine (the people of Judah).

And He built a tower in the center of it;

And also hewed out a [fn]wine vat in it.

Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,

But it produced only worthless ones.

Your mind will meditate on the terror [asking]:

“Where is he who counts?

Where is he who weighs [the tribute]?

Where is he who counts the towers?”

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when the city [of Jerusalem] will be rebuilt for the LORD from the [fn]Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

“As for you [Jerusalem], tower of the flock [of Israel],

Hill and stronghold of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem’s inhabitants),

To you the former dominion shall come,

The kingdom of the Daughter of Jerusalem [when the Messiah reigns in Jerusalem, and the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled].

All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon, [the Rimmon that is] south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain [lifted up] on its site from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.