12 Bible Verses about Walled Towns
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If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time. If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee.
All of these cities were fortified with high walls and double-door gates with bars across the gates. We also captured a large number of unwalled villages.
Bengeber: the city of Ramoth in Gilead, and the villages in Gilead belonging to the clan of Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, and the region of Argob in Bashan, sixty large towns in all, fortified with walls and with bronze bars on the gates.
They will blockade all your cities until the high, fortified walls you trust come down everywhere in your land. They will blockade all the cities everywhere in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.
I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are constantly before me.
People from Arvad and Helech were tower guards all around your walls. They made your beauty perfect.
Day and night they go around on top of the city walls. Trouble and misery are everywhere.
An opening was made in the wall of the town. All the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls by the king's garden. The Chaldaeans were stationed around the town: and the king went by the way toward the plain of Arabah.
The city had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on each gate, the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
He measured the wall, two hundred feet, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
You will say: I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are securely at rest. They live without walls and have no bars or gates.
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