Quotes about Protection

Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.

but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

“Is not the LORD your God with you, and has He not granted you rest on every side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land has been subdued before the LORD and His people.

For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

Rehoboam continued to live in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.

He also put shields and spears in all the cities and strengthened them greatly. So Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

When Jehoshaphat king of Judah had returned safely to his home in Jerusalem,

‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’

But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.

He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.