Lexicon :: Strong's H759 - 'armôn

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down over himself. He died

Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him and struck him down in Samaria at the citadel of the king’s palace — with Argob and Arieh.[fn] There were fifty Gileadite men with Pekah. He killed Pekahiah and became king in his place.

Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.

God is known as a stronghold

in its citadels.

note its ramparts; tour its citadels

so that you can tell a future generation:

“may there be peace within your walls,

security within your fortresses.”

An offended brother is harder to reach[fn]

than a fortified city,

and quarrels are like the bars of a fortress.

Look at the land of the Chaldeans —

a people who no longer exist.

Assyria destined it for desert creatures.

They set up their siege towers

and stripped its palaces.

They made it a ruin.

For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks,

a fortified city, into ruins;

the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;

it will never be rebuilt.

For the palace will be deserted,

the busy city abandoned.

The hill and the watchtower will become

barren places forever,

the joy of wild donkeys,

and a pasture for flocks,

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;

her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.

She will become a dwelling for jackals,

an abode[fn] for ostriches.

“Rise up, let’s attack by night.

Let’s destroy her fortresses.”

for Death has climbed through our windows;

it has entered our fortresses,

cutting off children from the streets,

young men from the squares.

“But if you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem and not be extinguished.’ ”

This is what the LORD says:

I will certainly restore the fortunes[fn] of Jacob’s tents

and show compassion on his dwellings.

Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;

every citadel will stand on its proper site.

I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;

it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.

The Lord is like an enemy;

he has swallowed up Israel.

He swallowed up all its palaces

and destroyed its fortified cities.

He has multiplied mourning and lamentation

within Daughter Judah.

The Lord has rejected his altar,

repudiated his sanctuary;

he has handed the walls of her palaces

over to the enemy.

They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD

as on the day of an appointed festival.

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;

Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.

I will send fire on their cities,

and it will consume their citadels.

Therefore, I will send fire against Hazael’s palace,

and it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.

Therefore, I will send fire against the walls of Gaza,

and it will consume its citadels.

Therefore, I will send fire against the walls of Tyre,

and it will consume its citadels.

Therefore, I will send fire against Teman,

and it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.

Therefore, I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah,

and it will consume its citadels.

There will be shouting on the day of battle

and a violent wind on the day of the storm.

Therefore, I will send fire against Moab,

and it will consume the citadels of Kerioth.

Moab will die with a tumult,

with shouting and the sound of the ram’s horn.

Therefore, I will send fire against Judah,

and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod

and on the citadels in the land of Egypt:

Assemble on the mountains of Samaria,

and see the great turmoil in the city

and the acts of oppression within it.

The Lord GOD has sworn by himself ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Armies:

I loathe Jacob’s pride

and hate his citadels,

so I will hand over the city and everything in it.

He will be their peace.

When Assyria invades our land,

when it marches against our fortresses,

we will raise against it seven shepherds,

even eight leaders of men.