Armory
/AR-mor-ee/
Summary
A place for storing weapons and military equipment, maintained by kings and cities for defense.
☩Royal Arsenals
Solomon built an armory called the 'House of the Forest of Lebanon' to store gold shields. Hezekiah showed the Babylonian envoys his armory along with his treasuries. Nehemiah mentions the armory at Jerusalem. The term is also used figuratively for God's provisions against enemies and for the tower of David hung with warriors' shields.
Key verses:1 Kings 10:172 Kings 20:13Nehemiah 3:19Song of Solomon 4:4Jeremiah 50:25
Related Verses6 mentions
See Also
References
- 1.John McClintock and James Strong, "Armory," in Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, vol. I (Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887).
- 2.James Orr (ed.), "Armory," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, vol. I (Howard-Severance Company, 1915).