Dictionaries :: Walls

Walls: Designed for Separation

Eze 43:8; Eph 2:14

Walls: Designed for Defence

1Sa 25:16

Walls: Mentioned in Scripture

Of cities

Num 13:28

Of temples

1Ch 29:4; Isa 56:5

Of houses

1Sa 18:11

Of vineyards

Num 22:24; Pro 24:31

Walls: Frequently Made of Stone and Wood Together

Ezr 5:8; Hab 2:11

Walls: Were probably often strengthened with plates of iron or brass

Jer 15:20; Eze 4:3

Walls: Of Cities

Often very high

Deu 1:28; 3:5

Strongly fortified

Isa 2:15; 25:12

Had towers built on them

2Ch 26:9; 32:5; Psa 48:12; Sgs 8:10

Houses often built on

Jos 2:15

Were broad and places of public resort

2Ki 6:26,30; Psa 55:10

Were strongly manned in war

2Ki 18:26

Kept by watchmen night and day

Sgs 5:7; Isa 62:6

Houses sometimes broken down to repair, and fortify

Isa 22:10

Danger of approaching too near to, in time of war

2Sa 11:20,21

Were battered by besieging armies

2Sa 20:15; Eze 4:2,3

Adroitness of soldiers in scaling alluded to

Joe 2:7-9

Sometimes burned

Jer 49:27; Amo 1:7

Frequently laid in ruins

2Ch 25:23; 36:19; Jer 50:15

Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief

Deu 28:52; Neh 1:3; 2:12-17

The falling of, sometimes occasioned great destruction

1Ki 20:30

The bodies of enemies sometimes fastened on, as a disgrace

1Sa 31:10

Custom of dedicating

Neh 12:27

idolatrous rites performed on

2Ki 3:27

Instances of persons let down from

Jos 2:15; Act 9:24,25; 2Cr 11:33

Walls: Small Towns and Villages Were Not Surrounded By

Lev 25:31; Deu 3:5

Walls: Of Houses

Usually plastered

Eze 13:10; Dan 5:5

Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built

Ecc 12:11; Isa 22:23

Liable to leprosy

Lev 14:37

Often infested with serpents

Amo 5:19

Could be easily dug through

Gen 49:6; Eze 8:7,8; 12:5

The seat next, was the place of distinction

1Sa 20:25

Walls: Hyssop Frequently Grew On

1Ki 4:33

Walls: Miracles Connected With

Falling of the walls of Jericho

Jos 6:20

Handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar's palace

Dan 5:5,25-28

Walls: Illustrative

Of salvation

Isa 26:1; 60:18

Of the protection of God

Zec 2:5

Of those who afford protection

1Sa 25:16; Isa 2:15

Of the Church as a protection to the nation

Sgs 8:9,10

Of ordinances as a protection to the Church

Sgs 2:9; Isa 5:5

Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit

Pro 18:11

(Brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked

Jer 15:20

(Bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments

Psa 62:3; Isa 30:13

(Of partition,) of separation of Jews and Gentiles

Eph 2:14

(Daubed with untempered mortar,) of the teaching of false prophets

Eze 13:10-15

(Whited,) of hypocrites

Act 23:3