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Topic:
Thoughts And Things Of The Bible --
Castle
The word "castle" refers to a military fortress (1 Chr.
11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making
known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also
mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds
kept watch over their flocks by night. The "castle" into which
the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the
Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his
patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the
temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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