12 Bible Verses about Walled Towns
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And, when, any man, selleth a dwelling-house in a walled city, then shall his right of redemption remain until the completion of a year after he sold it, - for, a year of days, shall his right of redemption remain. But, if it be not redeemed before the end of a full year, then shall the house that is in the city that hath walls be confirmed, beyond recovery, to him who bought it, unto his generations, - it shall not go out in the jubilee.
All these, were fortified cities each with a high wall, folding gates and a bar, - besides country towns exceeding many.
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead, - to him, belonged the towns of Jair, son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, his, was the region of Argob which is in Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls and with bars of bronze;
And he shall lay siege to thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down wherein thou wast trusting, in all thy land, - yea he will lay siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land which Yahweh thy God, hath given, unto thee.
Lo! on the palms of my hands, have portrayed thee, - Thy walls are before me continually.
The sons of Arvad, :with thine army, were upon thy walls round about, And valorous in thy towers, - Their shields, hung they up on thy walls round about, They perfected thy beauty:
Day and night, they go round her, upon her walls, And, trouble and misery, are in her midst;
then was the city broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the garden of the king, the Chaldeans being near the city round about, - and he went the way of the Waste Plain;
having a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and, at the gates, twelve messengers, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel, -
And he measured the wall thereof, - a hundred and forty-four cubits: the measure of a man, which is the measure of a messenger.
and, the wall of the city, having twelve foundations, and, upon them, twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
and wilt say - I will go up over a land of hamlets, I will enter among them who are at rest dwelling securely, - All of them, dwelling without a wall, Who bars and doors, have none;