ATDDTA (8) Towers of Silence (209:26)
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu May 3 11:52:31 CDT 2007
Part 2 of 2
A KWIC search of tower* from my texts cache, lightly culled.
I hope these undigested KWIC glipses are better than silence.
Not all have URL or title, but may suggest further Googling.
from Easton's Bible Dictionary
, and "within its walls and towers now standing he held his
of Jerusalem. ====== Babel, tower of - the name given to the
of - the name given to the tower which the primitive father
eir object in building this tower was probably that it might
egarded as the ruins of the tower of Babel. This is "one of
R .) The bricks used in the tower of Babel were burnt bricks
.) ====== Bulwarks - mural towers, bastions, were introduce
n old town called "Strato's Tower." It was the capital of th
7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for ma
. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept
ge, are all compared to the towering cedar, in its royal lof
and high walls, with watch-towers upon them (2 Chr. 11:11;
within the city generally a tower to which the citizens migh
e many Migdols (i.e., watch-towers) on the western side of t
supposed resemblance of its tower to a tantur, i.e., "a horn
ntur, i.e., "a horn"). This tower fell in 1895, and nothing
other tribes. ====== Edar - tower of the flock, a tower betw
dar - tower of the flock, a tower between Bethlehem and Hebr
h 4:8 the word is rendered "tower of the flock" (marg., "Eda
ce, called the Buwarizza, a tower 200 feet square in the cen
3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, s
or two walls, on which were towers or parapets at regular in
on one of which were ninety towers, on the second fourteen,
and on the third sixty. The tower of Hananeel, near the nort
n who were defenders of the towers of Tyre. ====== Gamul - w
stone (Prov. 24:31). "Watch-towers" or "lodges" were also bu
God has graciously given, a tower in the wall of Jerusalem (
tle (Num. 32:16), and watch-towers for the herdsmen, that he
place, or perhaps the watch-tower commanding it, was origina
ngs 21:13). ====== Jezreel, Tower of - one of the turrets wh
iberias. ====== Magdala - a tower, a town in Galilee, mentio
trict of it was called "the tower of dyers." The indigo plan
====== Meah - an hundred, a tower in Jersalem on the east wa
oots of Mount Hermon, which towers up at the north-eastern a
class. ====== Migdal-Edar - tower of the flock, a place 2 mi
EDAR .) ====== Migdal-el - tower of God, a fortified city o
(q.v.). ====== Migdal-gad - tower of fortune, a town in the
sh. 15:37). ====== Migdol - tower. (1.) A strongly-fortified
14). This word is rendered "tower" in Ezek. 29:10, but the m
t in Shechem, probably the "tower of Shechem" (9:46, 49). ==
Mizpah - or Miz'peh, watch-tower; the look-out. (1.) A plac
t, "the Mizpeh," "the watch-tower." The modern village of Me
ity of Benjamin, "the watch-tower", where the people were ac
reth perhaps means 'a watch tower' (now en-Nasrah), but is c
24 this word is translated "tower" (R.V., "hill"), denoting
m is preserved). The words "tower of the furnaces" (Neh. 3:1
1; 12:38) is more properly "tower of the ovens" (Heb. tannur
d the ruins of old vineyard towers are now found amidst soli
y and razed its lofty watch-tower to the ground. ====== Peor
har) means properly a round tower or fortress. It seems to h
t of Mizpeh or of the watch-tower (Josh. 13:26), a place men
a watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mount
=== Sechu - a hill or watch-tower, a place between Gibeah an
a bird in a cage, building towers round the city to hem him
the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen. 1
ginal place. ====== Siloam, Tower of - mentioned only Luke 1
ill-side where nothing else towers above the low brushwood"
he drew near to the strong tower to which its inhabitants h
descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersio
probably a garden-house and tower, into whose gloom it might
g. 16:9). See FLAX . ====== Tower of the furnaces - (Neh. 3:
ces - (Neh. 3:11; 12:38), a tower at the north-western angle
treet" (Jer. 37:21). ====== Towers - of Babel (Gen. 11:4), E
e 13:4). There were several towers in Jerusalem (2 Chr. 26:9
various purposes, as watch-towers in vineyard (Isa. 5:2; Ma
(Isa. 5:2; Matt. 21:33) and towers for defence. ====== Trach
d for this purpose on watch-towers (2 Kings 17:9; 18:8). Min
e, venerable looking square tower, which goes by the traditi
=== Zephath - beacon; watch-tower, a Canaanite town; called
tailings from a huge surf of "Revelation Beast" (many URLs):
REV_BX.TXT
-Semitism is a sin. Cooling towers years ago when alan kay w
able concerning prospective Tower Builders. Simon Whitechape
that the World Trade Center towers had 110 floors= 11x10. An
ship their God. The a Watch Tower Mana is an additional elem
curity from building a huge tower Genesis 11: 1-9. The peopl
ignificance is story of the Tower of Babel in biblical proph
which means elevated, as a tower or castle. It is not just
ads, horns and diadems. NEW Tower, Angels, Twins, Dec 23, 20
Pergamosa means a fortified tower and an elevated position.
God's Kingdom A 1993 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of
. Not since the days of the Tower of Babel have humanity's e
ere must be 6 ravens in the Tower of London, or the Kingdom
fter 1911, pgs. The Freedom Tower main building of the World
cial authority and control. Towering truly colossal! prophec
ok place according to Watch Tower belief. But the Bible info
The six ravens held at the Tower of London in England were
r God's intervention at the Tower of Babel, Babylon's promin
politics that it's like the tower of Babel all over. Sooner
hose who destroyed the twin towers must die by fire, as is h
s back to the Old Testament tower of Babel, which was a conf
cture at Andrews University Towers Auditorium on Wednesday e
efy God by building a great tower that was to reach up to he
an organisation, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society? E
ose who destroyed these two towers and trampled on this New
edible thing about the Twin Towers attack was that the WTC a
that the WTC actually had 7 towers in it all of which were d
f earth. Note that the twin towers of New York's World Trade
terrorists will go for High Towers such as the UN tower, Mil
High Towers such as the UN tower, Military bases fortified
ls, air ships, hit the high towers of the WTC and the fortif
sed the human family at the Tower of Babel: unity, security
e-world government with the Tower of Babel, which God destro
blasphemy. Then we have two towers being much taller than th
much taller than the other towers so they presumably would
a disaster than the other 5 towers. They worshipped the drag
ourse, and that site of the tower of Babel later became Baby
n from heaven and smash the towering image of gold, silver,
or not. But it is not Watch Tower preaching but WT practice
r the place where the great tower of Babel was attempted, an
d a one-world religion, the tower of Babel Gen. 11:4, and a
d to look like a modern day tower of Babel, where God previo
further away from the twin towers than say the Millennium H
ed to build their religious tower independently of the true
feeling of warm regard. The towering replica of the Statue o
ted States of Europe as the Tower of Babel, with 12 stars re
over in the building of the tower of Babel and the city of B
ion masquerading as a watch-tower that replaces me. So, let
ap on the top of a 320 foot tower that is part of the new 10
S., that destroyed the twin towers of New York City's World
ith a religious monument or tower. However, he goes further,
the World Trade Center twin towers, which look like an 11, a
are represented by the twin towers of the World Trade Center
t on Sept. 4, 2000, Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyomi
in the smoke when the Twin Towers fell while another saw th
sed the fact that The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society ha
cities and against the high towers. That the Beast is a sepa
ities, and against the high towers. The idea I am suggesting
enism, which started at the Tower of Babel, and yes perhaps
ng observatory or the watch-tower. That clear message is, IF
So John saw that the seven towers of the World Trade Center
ple of God upon their watch-tower; thirdly, to gather in one
http://bibleforums.org/forum/showthread.php?s=e16a598336565fd37918652a05fe80df&p=130184
_Christian Message Board - The 12 gates of Jerusalem_
rt. For Josephus placed the tower of Hananeel on the north w
p Gate. Josephus called the Tower of Hananeel the tower of "
d the Tower of Hananeel the tower of "Hippicus": "Now of the
began on the north, at the tower called Hippicus, and exten
ing Herod, who erected this tower in honour of his general,
e. Now, on referring to the Tower of Chananel [Hananeel] of
ith Migdal Pikus, evidently Tower of Hippicus, whence it is
s perfectly clear that this tower must have been erected on
ite of the ancient Chananel tower; for who could know more a
structure? "Migdal" means "tower. And so it is evident that
that "Migdol Pikus" is the tower of Hippicus that Josephus
And if it's true that this tower was built on the site of t
as built on the site of the Tower of Hananeel, then we can n
t might be worth to us, the Tower was east of "Bethso" and t
s us that there was another tower, "Meah," between the Sheep
ween the Sheep Gate and the Tower of Hananeel. Thus, with th
ll of the Temple Mount, the Tower of Meah would also be on t
ll, but, in relation to the Tower of Hananeel, closer to the
, beyond (i.e. west of) the Tower of Hananeel. From Nehemiah
h Gate was right beside the Tower of Hananeel, just to the w
). According to 12:38, the "Tower of the Furnaces" was just
cise is the locating of the Tower of Hananeel on the north w
the Temple Mount, for that Tower, and therefore that north
d between the two stood the Tower of Hammeah ("the hundred")
eah ("the hundred") and the Tower of Hananeel (v. 1). These
Hananeel (v. 1). These two towers were a part of the city's
6:9, "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corne
doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah (= "hundred") they
hey sanctified it, unto the tower (= to grow, become great o
http://www.truebiblecode.com/understanding158.html
tember 11, 2001Elul19, Twin Towers Tragedy, unity of thought
ather helped build the Twin Towers. "I used to think that we
in human history, since the tower of Babel, all of the 10 Ki
e UN starting with the twin towers and continues through to
the UN itself Fall of Twin Towers UNICC takes power as 8th
r Afghanistan. [6] The twin towers atrocity of 911 (2001Elul
he Significance of the Twin Towers When the true God changed
e building of the Legendary Tower of Babel, all of mankind c
ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heaven
own to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had b
history. Mankind's premier tower was abandoned and our lang
h 2001, Mankind's 2 premier towers were knocked down and an
truction of the two divided towers of the World Trade Centre
most as if a binary code of towers exists wherein 1 Tower be
of towers exists wherein 1 Tower being destroyed means all
means all divided up and 2 towers being destroyed means all
he days of Peleg). The Twin Towers Tragedy therefore was an
http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/Isis_Unveiled.htm
ody of Elephanta, the Round Tower of Bhangulpore, the minare
right phallus. "The western tower of St. Paul's Cathedral, L
Babylon at the summit of a tower," composing hymns, and pre
divinely-inhabited man may tower far above his kind, evince
erah, Abraham's father. The tower of Babel was built as much
was simply an astrological tower, and its builders were ast
sian Sibyl says: Before the Tower, Zeru-an, Titan, and Yapet
SSPORTS TO HEAVEN. from his towering person streams an efful
pyramids, whose equal sides tower up until lost angle belong
referring to an Irish Round Tower, observes: "Henry O'Brien
O'Brien explains this Round Tower Crucifixion as that of Bud
ists, who erected the Round Towers as symbols of the life-gi
pistol, jingling spurs, and towering panache? Of what use th
ther of the builders of the Tower of Babel who seek to reach
the seven spheres," on the tower of Borsippa, or Birs Nimru
uddha, all three (See Round Towers, p. 296, et seq., by Tuam
http://www.nazarene.net/enoch/1enoch61-105.htm
_The Book of Enoch, Chapters 61-105_
Then they showed me a lofty tower on the earth, while every
ade large and wide; a lofty tower being built upon it by the
2The house was low, but the tower was elevated and very high
f the sheep stood upon that tower, and caused a full table t
ouse of their Lord, and his tower; wandering on all sides, a
of their fathers, and their tower; giving them all into the
oars preyed upon them. That tower they burnt, and overthrew
extremely on account of the tower, and because the house of
before, and raised up that tower, which was called a lofty
r, which was called a lofty tower. 114And again they began t
y began to place before the tower a table, with every impure
http://www.eserver.org/clogic/2002/sharpe.html
_Sharpe: ". . . September 11 and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Ideology"_
he World Trade Centre North Tower, billowing smoke incongruo
d its way towards the South tower before plummeting into it
ne colliding with the South tower that will stand as the def
to be focussed on the twin towers. Unlike the first strike,
at the scene of the smoking towers, and/or their collapse, w
loughing into the South WTO tower were repeated in the ensui
11 was not simply the twin towers. Americans' very sense of
e second strike on the twin towers was a phenomenon directly
ion of the hit on the South tower, I think Zizek's categorie
ke planes striking the twin towers, for example). This is wh
>From some P post, titled: "GRGR: opening sans page nos."
piral staircase. Google Poe tower horse spiral to see old &
erpent, book/scroll/spiral, tower, horse, slaughter, church,
ay endlessly, and came to a tower window overlooking a might
und floor to the top of the tower (I ... The Works of Edgar
striking from all the clock-towers of Paris. ... Paris is fu
that his arm is "a look-out tower - or rather a look-in towe
tower - or rather a look-in tower --images go in and ... 17
en with His Own Hand in the Tower Before His Execution. The
d shook his gauntlet at the towers. "Horse! horse! ... Also
Also Then he climbed to the tower of the church, Up the wood
madly ... in her apocryphal tower Nadja weeps. por nada en e
from Project Gutenburg Divine Comedy
0DDCL10.TXT
he mire; Unto the foot of a tower we came at last. Inferno:
We to the foot of that high tower had come, Our eyes went up
r drawn me Tow'rds the high tower with the red-flaming summi
ward I held When many lofty towers I seemed to see, Whereat
ge, know that these are not towers, but giants, And they are
reggione crowns itself with towers, E'en thus the margin whi
might That it could shake a tower so violently, As Ephialtes
under door Of the horrible tower; whereat without a word I
alk; Stand like a steadfast tower, that never wags Its top f
rue city should discern the tower. The laws exist, but who s
sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, i
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/TPW8000L.htm
ection of wisdom, a pointed tower, made of the seven preciou
four corners of the pointed tower, and performed the functio
the middle of this pointed tower a couch made of the seven
n tablets. And this pointed tower is adorned with brightly c
dens look upon this pointed tower, so magnificently decorate
cattering over this pointed tower heavenly Mandarava flowers
, scatter over this pointed tower, which consists of preciou
the middle of this pointed tower, as he has written this on
rmodgata and form a pointed tower of flowers. And these flow
http://www.maryforrest.com/mythology/index.html
_Mythology Notes_
ognized "all the gods." The Tower of Babel was a tower being
." The Tower of Babel was a tower being built to reach the g
ean inside. At one point, a tower of glass is built on an is
he two Fomors who built the tower are Mork and Conan. The Fo
rk and Conan) built a Glass Tower on Tory Island. They exact
http://jloughnan.tripod.com/forgery.htm
_Anne Catherine Emmerich Selected Pages_
WTC tower related... 4 parts of A.C.
cted with the building of a tower by a web fine as that of a
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/3women.html
from Sylvia Plath's _Three Women_
in their thick suits, White towers of Smithfield ahead, Fat
A> Point Shirley From Water-Tower Hill to the brick prison T
dove. Against both bar and tower the black sea runs. Finist
t of radiance. Entering the tower of my fears, I shut my doo
http://www.geocities.com/temptations_page/DylGuide2.html
_The Annotated Bob Dylan_
nd lives hidden in the bell tower of Notre Dame cathedral. H
e fighting in the captain's tower... Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Rapunzel in a high, narrow tower. She, however, grows her h
d when a rider comes to the tower and is smitten with her, h
http://moshkow.rsl.ru/koi/NABOKOW/lolitaengl.txt
_Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita_
anes listed towards me like towers of Pisa. Ruined Russian p
ove Ramsdale's white church tower when I looked around me fo
out to jump from the Eiffel Tower. Her faint breathing had t
ads of presidents carved in towering granite. The Bearded Wo
_Egregor - by L.S. Bernstein_
know it contains four Watch Towers with designated governors
Dead Sea Scrolls refer to "towers" protected by angels. Dur
6, where the shields of the towers are to be inscribed with
mations which involve four 'towers' ('Migdalot') which are a
http://www.polyamoury.com/~howard/Poetry/orpheus_index.html
_Howard A. Landman's translation of Rilke's "The Sonnets to Orpheus"_
en anew, In which it really towers and really races. Daring
d column. IV You don't know towers, with your diffidence. Ye
ow you'll become aware Of a tower in that wonderful rare Spa
http://www.adelphiasophism.com/gog/gg21.html
press, the pomegranate, the tower, steeple, hand gestures, a
ris, Thor, Oden, the cross, tower, spire, pillar, minaret, r
f my salvation, and my high tower. Ps 18:2 To shew that Yeho
stump of a tree, a block, a tower, spire, minaret, pole, pin
http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/asw/asw06.htm
_The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship: Author's Afterword_
stump of a tree, a block, a tower, spire, minaret, pole, pin
ris, Thor, Oden, the cross, tower, spire, pillar, minaret, t
press, the pomegranate, the tower, steeple, hand gestures, a
koran.txt
"http://isgkc.org/translat.htm"
hough you are in well-built towers." Yet if something fine h
r some clay, and build me a tower so I may climb up to Moses
oh said; "Haman, build me a tower so that I may reach the me
se! He has placed headlands towering above it and blessed [w
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_watts.html
_Pynchon - Essays: "Journey into the Mind of Watts"_
treet into the famous Watts Towers, perhaps his own dream of
f Watts debris. Next to the Towers, along the old Pacific El
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/axpln10.txt
. Childe Roland to the dark tower came. A polite gendarme th
Dunfermline, in whose royal towers the king may be still obs
e myriad feet of insects or towering into the heavens on the
The Abbot Joachim
ay the landscape bare, With tower and town and hill and plai
nn depicts Muenzer as a man towering above his epoch. In his
rays piercing the darkness. Towering in the gloom the ecstat
ay the landscape bare, With tower and town and hill and plai
http://www.morgane.org/Theleme/l004.txt
rs flaunted from pasteboard towers of baseless theories. One
is exhausted, their strong towers fall, they become the Eat
e of Life and to attain the Towers of the Black Brothers. Bu
http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jcreeves/sefer_zerubbabel.htm
before. They will flee into towers, among mountains, and int
http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucau10.htm
n" is the central observing tower even though the prisoners
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/millay03.html
ep-throated bell within the tower! Startled, I raised my hea
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1326/ontology.html
_Autofellatio and Ontology_
the gateway between the two towers of the pylon, which are i
"http://www.ccf.net/immanuel/kapitel05E.htm"
cities And the high corner towers. 1,17 I will bring distre
up, 2,15 Against every high tower, Against every fortified w
arthen (in Wales), Merlin's Tower, and the Imprisoned Fiends
http://www.ualr.edu/~rlknutson/Lyric.html
be, I think, the sumptuous towers Which skill doth make in
"http://www.godshew.org/Sevens2.htm"
strength my buckler my high tower The LORD is my (sevenfold)
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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