58 Bible Verses about Walls

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Lamentations 2:7

Jehovah rejected his altar, he abhorred his holy place, he shut up in the hand of the enemy the walls of her castles; they gave a voice in the house of Jehovah, as the day of the appointment

1 Samuel 18:10-11

And it will be on the morrow, and the evil spirit of God will fall upon Saul, and he will prophesy in the midst of the house: and David playing with his hand as the day to day: and a spear in Saul's hand. And Saul will lift up the spear, and say, I will strike against David into the wall And David will flee from before him twice.

1 Samuel 20:25

And the king will sit upon his seat as from time to time, to a seat of the wall: and Jonathan will rise, and Abner will sit by Saul's side, and David's seat will be reviewed.

Isaiah 38:2

And Hezekiah will turn his face to the wall and pray to Jehovah.

Daniel 5:5

In the same moment went forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote before the candlestick upon the lime of the wall of the temple of the king: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

2 Chronicles 14:7

And he will say to Judah, We will build these cities, and surround a wall, and towers, doors and bars, and the land yet before us: for we sought Jehovah our God, and he will give to us rest from round about And they will build and prosper.

Numbers 35:4

And the areas of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites from the wall of the city and without, a thousand cubits round about

1 Samuel 31:10

And they will put up his arms in the house of Ashtaroth: and his body they will hang up upon the wall of the House of Quiet

2 Samuel 18:24

And David will sit between the two gates: and he watching will go to the roof of the gate to the wall, and he lift up his eyes and see, and behold, a man running by himself.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities fortified with high walls, doors and bars; besides of cities of the open country exceedingly many.

Nehemiah 2:17

And saying to them, Ye seeing the evil which we are in it, how Jerusalem lay waste, and her gates were burnt with fire: come ye, and we will build the walls of Jerusalem, and we shall be no more a reproach.

Joshua 2:15

And she will let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the wall side and she will dwell upon the wall.

Joshua 6:5

And it was in prolonging upon the horn of the jubilee in your hearing, the voice of the trumpet, and all the people shall shout a great shout: and the walls of the city shall fall under it, and the people went up each before him.

1 Kings 3:1

And Solomon will contract marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he will take Pharaoh's daughter and bring her to the city of David till he finished building his house, and the house of Jehovah and the wall of Jerusalem round about

2 Kings 3:27

And he will take his son, the firstborn, which shall reign in his stead, and bring him up a burnt-offering upon the wall: and there will be great anger against Israel, and they will remove from him and turn back to the land.

2 Chronicles 27:3

He built the gate of the house of Jehovah the highest, and upon the wall of Ophel he built for multitude.

Psalm 55:10

Day and night they will surround it upon its walls: and vanity and trouble in her midst

Isaiah 58:12

And from thee the old wastes were built; the foundations of generation and generation thou shalt raise them up, and it was called to thee, Walling the breach, Turning back the beaten paths to dwell in.

1 Kings 6:27

And he will give the cherubims in the midst of the house within: and the cherubims will expand the wings, and the wing of the one will touch upon the wall, and the wing of the second cherub touched upon the second wall; and their wings touched wing to wing to the middle of the house.

1 Kings 7:12

And the great enclosure round about, three rows of cuttings, and a row of cuttings of cedars, and for the enclosure of the house of Jehovah within, and for the porch of the house.

Matthew 21:33

Hear another parable: A certain man was master of a house, who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and digged in it a winepress, and let it out to farmers, and went abroad:

Numbers 22:24-25

And the messenger of Jehovah will stand in the hollow of the vineyards, an enclosure hence, and an enclosure thence. And the ass will see the messenger of Jehovah and she will press to the wall, and she will press Balaam's foot to the wall; and he will add to strike her,

Psalm 80:12

Wherefore didst thou break down her walls, and all passing by the way plucked her?

Deuteronomy 28:52

And he passed upon thee in all thy gates until the coming down of thy high and inaccessible fortresses which thou trustest in them in all thy land: and he passed upon thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Jeremiah 50:15

Shout against her round about: she gave her hand: her supports fell, her walls were pulled down: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: avenge ye upon her; as she did, do ye to her.

2 Samuel 20:15

And they will come and besiege against him in Abel of the house of oppression, and they will pour out a mound against the city, and it will stand in the fortification: and all the people which were with Joab laying waste to throw down the wall.

2 Kings 14:13

And Jehoash king of Israel seized Amaziah king of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, in the house of the sun; and he will come to Jerusalem, and he will break in the wall of Jerusalem in the gate of Ephraim, even to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits

2 Kings 25:4

And the city will be broken up, and all the men of war by night the way of the gate between the walls by the king's garden: (and the Chaldees against the city round about;) and he will go the way of the sterile region.

2 Chronicles 26:6

And he will go forth and war against the rovers, and he will break in the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he will build cities in Ashdod, and among the rovers.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they will burn the house of God and break down the walls of Jerusalem, and burn all her palaces in fire, and all her precious vessels for destruction.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire.

Psalm 89:40

Thou didst break down all his walls; thou didst set his fortifications a ruin.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down.

Isaiah 22:5

For a day of consternation, and of treading down, and perplexity by the Lord Jehovah of armies of the valley of vision, of undermining the wall, and of a cry for help to the mountains.

Lamentations 2:8

Jehovah purposed to destroy the walls of the daughter of Zion: he stretched out a line, he turned not back his hand from swallowing down: and the entrenchment will mourn, and the wall; together they languished.

Ezekiel 26:4

And they destroyed the walls of Tyre, and pulled down her towers and I swept away her dust from her,i and I gave her for a dry rock

Amos 4:3

And ye shall go forth at the breaches, a woman before her; and ye cast to the fortress, says Jehovah.

Isaiah 30:13

For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment

1 Kings 20:30

And the rest will flee to Aphek, to the city; and the wall will fall upon twenty and seven thousand men being left And Ben-hadad fled, and he will come to the city, to a chamber in a chamber.

Psalm 62:3

How long will ye set upon a man? ye will kill all of you: as a wall inclining, a wall thrust down.

Ezekiel 13:10-16

Because, and because they led my people astray, saying, Peace; and no peace; and he built a wall and they plastering it with plaster: Say to them plastering with plaster: And it shall fall: there was a violent rain poured out; and ye, O hailstones, shall fall; and the spirit of storms shall rend. And behold, the wall fell; shall it not be said to you, Where the plastering which ye plastered?read more.
For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I rent a spirit of storms in my wrath; and there shall be a violent shower overflowing in mine anger, and stones of hail in my wrath to finish. And I broke in pieces the wall which ye plastered with plaster, and I caused it to touch the earth, and its foundation was uncovered and it fell, and ye were consumed in its midst: and ye knew that I am Jehovah. And I finished my wrath upon the wall, and upon those plastering it with plaster, and saying to you, No wall, and none plastering it; The prophets of Israel prophesying to Jerusalem, and seeing for her a vision of peace, and no peace, says the Lord Jehovah.

Isaiah 25:4

For thou wert a fortress to the poor, a fortress to the needy in straits; to him a refuge from the inundation, a shadow from the heat when the wind of the terrible ones as the inundation of the wall.

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall to us, also the night, also the day, all the days we were with them feeding the sheep.

Ezra 9:9

For we are servants; and in our servitude God forsook us not, and he extended to us mercy before the kings of Persia, to give to us the preservation of life to set up the house of our God, and to cause its desolations to stand, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 26:1

In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: A strong city to us; he will set salvation the wall and the fortification.

Isaiah 59:10

We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead.

Jeremiah 1:18

Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought from them a man to wall in the wall, and to stand in the breach before my face for the land, not to destroy it: and I found not

Acts 23:3

Then said Paul to him, God is about to strike thee, thou wall covered with dust: and sittest thou judging me according to law, and commanded me to be struck illegally?

Revelation 21:12-19

And having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and the names inscribed, which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel: From the sunrising three gates; from the north three gates; from the south three gates; and from the sun-setting three gates. And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve sent of the Lamb.read more.
And he speaking with me had a golden reed that he might measure the city, and her gates, and her wall. And the city lies quadrangular, and her length is so large, such also the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, at twelve thousand stadia. Her length, breadth, and height are equal. And he measured her wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is the angel. And the interior construction of her wall was a jasper: and the city pure gold, like pure crystal. And the foundations of the wall of the city adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation a jasper; the second, a sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald:

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Revelation 21:14

And the wall of the city having twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve sent of the Lamb.

Ezra 4:12

To be known to the king that the Jews who went up from with thee to us, came to Jerusalem, building the perverse and bad city, and they completed its wall, and they will repair its foundations.

Walls » Of cities » Had towers built on them

2 Chronicles 32:5

And he will strengthen himself and build all the wall broken down, and he will go up upon the towers, and to without another wall, and he will strengthen the filling up of the city of David, and he will make darts for abundance, and shields.

2 Chronicles 26:9

And Uzziah will build towers in Jerusalem at the gate of the corner, and at the gate of the valley, and at the angle, and he will strengthen them.

Psalm 48:12

Surround ye Zion, and go round about her: recount her towers.

Song of Songs 8:10

I am a wall, and my breasts as towers: then was I in his eyes as finding peace.

Walls » Of cities » Frequently laid in ruins

2 Chronicles 25:23

And Joash king of Israel seized Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, in the house of the sun; and he will bring him to Jerusalem, and he will break in upon the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim, even to the gate of turning, four hundred cubits.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they will burn the house of God and break down the walls of Jerusalem, and burn all her palaces in fire, and all her precious vessels for destruction.

Jeremiah 50:15

Shout against her round about: she gave her hand: her supports fell, her walls were pulled down: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: avenge ye upon her; as she did, do ye to her.

Walls » Of cities » Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief

Deuteronomy 28:52

And he passed upon thee in all thy gates until the coming down of thy high and inaccessible fortresses which thou trustest in them in all thy land: and he passed upon thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire.

Nehemiah 2:12-17

And I shall rise in the night, I and a few men with me; and I announced not to man what my God gave into my heart to do at Jerusalem: and no beast with me but the beast that I rode upon it And I shall go forth by the gate of the valley by night, and before the second fountain, and to the gate of the dung-hill, and I shall be watching the walls of Jerusalem that they being broken, and its gates were consumed with fire. And I shall pass over to the gate of the fountain and pool of the king: and not a place for the beast under me to pass. read more.
And I shall be going up by the torrent in the night, and I shall be watching the walls, and I shall turn back and come into the gate of the valley; and I shall turn back. And the prefects knew not whither I went and what I was doing: and to the Jews and to the priests and to the nobles and to the prefects, and to the rest doing the work, even thus I announced not And saying to them, Ye seeing the evil which we are in it, how Jerusalem lay waste, and her gates were burnt with fire: come ye, and we will build the walls of Jerusalem, and we shall be no more a reproach.

Walls » Of cities » Instances of persons let down from

2 Corinthians 11:33

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and I escaped from his hands.

Joshua 2:15

And she will let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the wall side and she will dwell upon the wall.

Acts 9:24-25

But this project was known to Saul. And they observed narrowly the gates day, and also night, that they might kill him. And the disciples having taken him by night, put through the wall, having let down in a wicker basket.

Walls » Of houses » Could be easily dug through

Genesis 49:6

My soul shall not come into their consultation; in their assembly, my honor shall not be united, for in their anger they killed a man and in their will, houghed a bullock.

Ezekiel 8:7

And he brought me to the door of the enclosure, and I saw, and behold, one hole in the wall.

Ezekiel 12:5

Before their eyes break through to thee in the wall, and bring forth by it

Walls » Of cities » Often very high

Deuteronomy 1:28

Whither are we going up? our brethren melted our heart, saying, A people great and high above us; cities great and fortified to the heavens; and also, the sons of the Anakims, we saw there.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities fortified with high walls, doors and bars; besides of cities of the open country exceedingly many.

Walls » Of houses » Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails planted of the masters of the gatherings; they were given from one shepherd.

Isaiah 22:23

And I fastened him a peg in a faithful place; and he. was for a throne of glory to his father's house.

Walls » Of cities » Kept by watchmen night and day

Isaiah 62:6

I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you.

Song of Songs 5:7

They watching going round about in the city, found me; they struck me, they wounded me: they watching the wall took away my veil from me.

Walls » Small towns and villages were not surrounded by

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities fortified with high walls, doors and bars; besides of cities of the open country exceedingly many.

Leviticus 25:31

And the houses of the villages which to them not being walled round about, shall be reckoned for a field of the land: redemption shall be to it, and it shall go forth in the jubilee.

Walls » Illustrative » Of ordinances as a protection to the church

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down.

Song of Songs 2:9

My beloved is like to the roe or to the fawn of the hinds: behold him standing behind our wall looking forth from the windows, glancing from the lattices.

Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of temples

1 Chronicles 29:4

Three thousand talents of gold from gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of purified silver, to spread over the walls of the houses:

Isaiah 56:5

And I gave to them in my house and in my walls a hand and a name good above sons and above daughters: an eternal name will I give to him which shall not be cut off.

Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of vineyards

Numbers 22:24

And the messenger of Jehovah will stand in the hollow of the vineyards, an enclosure hence, and an enclosure thence.

Proverbs 24:31

And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown.

Walls » Of cities » Were battered by besieging armies

2 Samuel 20:15

And they will come and besiege against him in Abel of the house of oppression, and they will pour out a mound against the city, and it will stand in the fortification: and all the people which were with Joab laying waste to throw down the wall.

Ezekiel 4:2-3

And give siege against it, and build a watch tower against it, and cast a mound against it, and give the camp against it, and set battering-rams against it round about And thou, take to thee an iron pan and give it a wall of iron between thee and between the city: and prepare thy face against it, and she was in siege, and press upon her. This a sign to the house of Israel.

Walls » Designed for separation

Ezekiel 43:8

In their giving their threshold with my thresholds, and their door-post by my door-posts, and the wall between me and between them, and they defiled my holy name with their abominations which they did: and consuming them in my anger.

Walls » Illustrative » Of those who afford protection

Isaiah 2:15

And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall to us, also the night, also the day, all the days we were with them feeding the sheep.

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

Jeremiah 15:20

And I gave thee to this people for a wall of brass, fortified: and they shall war against thee, and they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, says Jehovah.

Ezekiel 4:3

And thou, take to thee an iron pan and give it a wall of iron between thee and between the city: and prepare thy face against it, and she was in siege, and press upon her. This a sign to the house of Israel.

Walls » Miracles connected with » Handwriting on the wall of belshazzar's palace

Daniel 5:5

In the same moment went forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote before the candlestick upon the lime of the wall of the temple of the king: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

Daniel 5:25-28

And this the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PHARSIN. This the interpretation of the word: Mene; God numbered thy kingdom and completed it. Tekel; Thou shalt be weighed in the balances and be found wanting. read more.
Pharsin; Thy kingdom was divided, and it shall be given to the Medes and to Persia.

Walls » Of cities » Were broad and places of public resort

2 Kings 6:30

And it will be when the king heard the woman's words, and he will rend his garments; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people will see, and behold, sackcloth upon his flesh, from within.

2 Kings 6:26

And the king of Israel will be passing by upon the wall, and a woman cried out to him, saying, Save, O lord the king.

Walls » Illustrative » Of salvation

Isaiah 26:1

In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: A strong city to us; he will set salvation the wall and the fortification.

Isaiah 60:18

Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation and breaking in thy bounds: and thou calledst thy walls Salvation, and thy gates, Praise.

Walls » Of houses » Usually plastered

Daniel 5:5

In the same moment went forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote before the candlestick upon the lime of the wall of the temple of the king: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, and because they led my people astray, saying, Peace; and no peace; and he built a wall and they plastering it with plaster:

Walls » Of cities » Strongly fortified

Isaiah 25:12

And the fortress of the height of thy walls shall be brought low; be humbled, be struck to the earth, even to the dust.

Isaiah 2:15

And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,

Walls » Illustrative » (bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments

Isaiah 30:13

For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment

Psalm 62:3

How long will ye set upon a man? ye will kill all of you: as a wall inclining, a wall thrust down.

Walls » Of cities » Sometimes burned

Jeremiah 49:27

And I will kindle a fire in the walls of Damascus, and it consumed the palaces of the son of Hadad.

Amos 1:7

And I sent a fire upon the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its palaces.

Walls » Frequently made of stone and wood together

Ezra 5:8

To be known to the king that we went to the Judah province, to the house of the great God; and it was building with stone of rolling, and wood being set up in the walls; and this work being diligently done, and prospering in their hands.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stone from the wall shall cry out, and the cross-beam from the wood shall answer it.

Walls » Illustrative » Of the church as a protection to the nation

Song of Songs 8:9-10

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a fortress of silver: and if she is a door we will bind upon her a tablet of cedar. I am a wall, and my breasts as towers: then was I in his eyes as finding peace.

Walls » Of cities » Danger of approaching too near to, in time of war

2 Samuel 11:20-21

And it being if the wrath of the king shall go up, and he say to thee, Wherefore drew ye near to the city to fight? did ye not know that they cast from above the wall? Who struck Abimelech, son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast upon him a piece of the upper millstone from above the wall, and he will die in Thebez? Wherefore drew ye near to the wall? And say thou, Also thy servant, Uriah the Hittite died.

Walls » Illustrative » (daubed with untempered mortar,) of the teaching of false prophets

Ezekiel 13:10-15

Because, and because they led my people astray, saying, Peace; and no peace; and he built a wall and they plastering it with plaster: Say to them plastering with plaster: And it shall fall: there was a violent rain poured out; and ye, O hailstones, shall fall; and the spirit of storms shall rend. And behold, the wall fell; shall it not be said to you, Where the plastering which ye plastered? read more.
For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I rent a spirit of storms in my wrath; and there shall be a violent shower overflowing in mine anger, and stones of hail in my wrath to finish. And I broke in pieces the wall which ye plastered with plaster, and I caused it to touch the earth, and its foundation was uncovered and it fell, and ye were consumed in its midst: and ye knew that I am Jehovah. And I finished my wrath upon the wall, and upon those plastering it with plaster, and saying to you, No wall, and none plastering it;

Walls » Of houses » Liable to leprosy

Leviticus 14:37

And he saw the stroke; and behold, the stroke in the walls of the house, the hollows greenish, or reddish and their sight low from the wall.

Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of houses

1 Samuel 18:11

And Saul will lift up the spear, and say, I will strike against David into the wall And David will flee from before him twice.

Walls » Illustrative » (brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked

Jeremiah 22:20

Go up to Lebanon and cry, and in Basilan thou shalt give thy voice and cry from the passages, for all they loving thee were broken.

Walls » Illustrative » (of partition,) of separation of jews and gentiles

Walls » Illustrative » Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit

Walls » Of cities » The bodies of enemies sometimes fastened on, as a disgrace

1 Samuel 31:10

And they will put up his arms in the house of Ashtaroth: and his body they will hang up upon the wall of the House of Quiet

Walls » Of houses » The seat next, was the place of distinction

1 Samuel 20:25

And the king will sit upon his seat as from time to time, to a seat of the wall: and Jonathan will rise, and Abner will sit by Saul's side, and David's seat will be reviewed.

Walls » Of cities » Custom of dedicating

Nehemiah 12:27

And in the consecration of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to do the consecration and gladness, and with praises and with song of cymbals, lyres, and with harps.

Walls » Designed for defence

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall to us, also the night, also the day, all the days we were with them feeding the sheep.

Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of cities

Numbers 13:28

Only that the people are strong dwelling upon the land, and the cities fortified, and very great: and also we saw the children of Anak there.

Walls » Illustrative » Of the protection of God

Walls » Of cities » The falling of, sometimes occasioned great destruction

1 Kings 20:30

And the rest will flee to Aphek, to the city; and the wall will fall upon twenty and seven thousand men being left And Ben-hadad fled, and he will come to the city, to a chamber in a chamber.

Walls » Of cities » Were strongly manned in war

2 Kings 18:26

And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, will say, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Speak now to thy servants in Syriac; for we hear: and thou shalt not speak with us in Judaic in the ears of the people who are upon the wall

Walls » Of cities » Houses sometimes broken down to repair, and fortify

Isaiah 22:10

The houses of Jerusalem ye numbered, and ye will break down the houses to fortify the wall.

Walls » Of cities » Idolatrous rites performed on

2 Kings 3:27

And he will take his son, the firstborn, which shall reign in his stead, and bring him up a burnt-offering upon the wall: and there will be great anger against Israel, and they will remove from him and turn back to the land.

Walls » Hyssop frequently grew on

1 Kings 4:33

And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes.

Walls » Miracles connected with » Falling of the walls of jericho

Joshua 6:20

And the people will shout and clang with the trumpets: and it will be as the people heard the voice of the trumpet, and the people will shout a great shout, and the wall will fall under it, and the people will go up to the city, each before him, and they will take the city.

Walls » Of cities » Houses often built on

Joshua 2:15

And she will let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the wall side and she will dwell upon the wall.

Walls » Of cities » Adroitness of soldiers in scaling, alluded to

Joel 2:7-9

They shall run as strong men; as men of war they shall come up upon the wall; and they shall go each in his ways; they shall not change their paths. And they shall not thrust a man his brother; they shall go a man in his high way: and in the midst of the javelin shall they fall, they shall not be cut in pieces. In the city they shall run up and down; on the wall shall they run, into the houses they shall come up, through the windows shall they come in as a thief.

Walls » Illustrative » (whited,) of hypocrites

Acts 23:3

Then said Paul to him, God is about to strike thee, thou wall covered with dust: and sittest thou judging me according to law, and commanded me to be struck illegally?

Walls » Of houses » Often infested with serpents

Amos 5:19

According as a man will flee from the face of the lion and the bear struck upon him, and he came into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and the serpent bit him.

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Dimensions Of Walls

Ezekiel 42:20

To the four winds he measured it: the wall to it round about, round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to separate between the holy to the profane.

Figurative Walls

Lamentations 2:18

Their heart cried to Jehovah, O wall of the daughter of Zion, cause tears to go down as a torrent day and night thou shalt give no remission to thyself; the daughter of thine eye shall not be silent

Opening Walls

Ezekiel 8:7

And he brought me to the door of the enclosure, and I saw, and behold, one hole in the wall.

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