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Walls

Designed for separation - Eze 43:8; Eph 2:14

Designed for defence - 1Sa 25:16

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Of cities
- Nu 13:28
• Of temples
- 1Ch 29:4; Isa 56:5
• Of houses
- 1Sa 18:11
• Of vineyards
- Nu 22:24; Pr 24:31

Frequently made of stone and wood together - Ezr 5:8; Hab 2:11

Were probably often strengthened with plates of iron or brass - Jer 15:20; Eze 4:3

OF CITIES

• Often very high
- De 1:28; 3:5
• Strongly fortified
- Isa 2:15; 25:12
• Had towers built on them
- 2Ch 26:9; 32:5; Ps 48:12; So 8:10
• Houses often built on
- Jos 2:15
• Were broad and places of public resort
- 2Ki 6:26,30; Ps 55:10
• Were strongly manned in war
- 2Ki 18:26
• Kept by watchmen night and day
- So 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; Am 1:7
• Frequently laid in ruins
- 2Ch 25:23; 36:19; Jer 50:15
• Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief
- De 28:52; Ne 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
- Ne 12:27
• idolatrous rites performed on
- 2Ki 3:27
• Instances of persons let down from
- Jos 2:15; Ac 9:24,25; 2Co 11:33

Small towns and villages were not surrounded by - Le 25:31; De 3:5

OF HOUSES

• Usually plastered
- Eze 13:10; Da 5:5
• Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built
- Ec 12:11; Isa 22:23
• Liable to leprosy
- Le 14:37
• Often infested with serpents
- Am 5:19
• Could be easily dug through
- Ge 49:6; Eze 8:7,8; 12:5
• The seat next, was the place of distinction
- 1Sa 20:25

Hyssop frequently grew on - 1Ki 4:33

MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH

• Falling of the walls of Jericho
- Jos 6:20
• Handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar's palace
- Da 5:5,25-28

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
- So 8:9,10
• Of ordinances as a protection to the Church
- So 2:9; Isa 5:5
• Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit
- Pr 18:11
• (Brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked
- Jer 15:20
• (Bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments
- Ps 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
- Ac 23:3
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