Isaiah 29:3
And I will compass you about like David, and will raise a mound about you, and set up towers round you.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:32Is it not so? Thus says the Lord + 19:32 Or, of. Heb. concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot + 19:32 Gr. a weapon. an arrow there, neither shall a shield + 19:32 Gr. come against it beforehand, etc. come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.
2 Kings 25:1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a + 25:1 Or, circumvallation. mound against it.
Ezekiel 21:22On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:2-9
The Punishment of Ariel. ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one… Read the whole commentary →