58 Bible Verses about Walls
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Jehovah rejected his altar and disowned his holy place. He gave up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses. Their voices have been loud in the house of Jehovah as in the day of a holy meeting.
The next day Jehovah let a distressing spirit take control of Saul. He began acting like a crazy man inside his house. David came to play the harp for Saul as usual. This time Saul had a spear in his hand. Saul balanced the spear in his hand and said: I will give David a blow! I will pin him to the wall. David got away from him twice.
He ate by the wall, just as he always did. Jonathan sat across from him. Abner sat next to him. But David's place was empty.
In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote above the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Asa told Judah: Let us build these cities and make walls around them with towers and doors that can be barred. The country is still ours because we have dedicated our lives to serve Jehovah our God. We have dedicated our lives to him. He has surrounded us with peace. So they built the cities, and everything went well.
The land around the cities that you give the Levites will extend fifteen hundred feet from the city wall.
They put his armor in the temple of their goddesses the Asherahs and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.
David was sitting between the two gates. The watchman walked along the roof of the gate by the wall. He looked at the man running alone.
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.
Then I said to them: You see what a bad condition we are in. How Jerusalem is a waste. It's gateways burned with fire. Come; let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town wall. She lived on the wall.
When you hear a long blast with the ram's horn, all the people will shout with a great shout. The wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up, every man straight in to the city.
Solomon made an alliance with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he finished building his palace, the Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.
He took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.
Jotham built the Upper Gate of Jehovah's Temple and did extensive building of the wall at the Ophel.
Day and night they go around on top of the city walls. Trouble and misery are everywhere.
Those among you will rebuild the ancient ruins. You will raise up the age-old foundations. You will be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the streets in which to dwell.
They were placed side by side in the Most Holy Place. Their outstretched wings touched each other in the middle of the room, and the other two wings touched the walls.
The large courtyard had three layers of cut stone blocks and a layer of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of Jehovah's Temple and the entrance hall.
Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.
Where the road went through the vineyards, it was narrow, with stonewalls on both sides. Now the angel of Jehovah stood there. The donkey saw the angel and it moved over against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against it. Again Balaam beat the donkey.
Why did you break down the stone fences around this vine? All who pass by are picking its fruit.
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.
He who cannot control his own spirit (life) is as helpless as a city without walls, open to trouble.
Shout a war cry against them on every side. They will surrender. Their towers will fall and their walls will be torn down. Since this is Jehovah's vengeance, take revenge against them. Do to them what they did to others.
Joab and his troops surrounded Abel, so no one could go in or come out. They made a dirt ramp (rampart) up to the town wall. Then they used a battering ram to knock the wall down.
Jehoash king of Israel made Amaziah king of Judah son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Bethshemesh. He went to Jerusalem and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the Gate of Ephraim to the gate in the angle, six hundred feet.
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.
Uzziah went to wage war against the Philistines. He tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. He built cities near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.
He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.
They said to me: The small band of Jews now living there in the land is in deep trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
You have broken through all his walls and have laid his fortified cities in ruins.
Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
The Lord Jehovah of Hosts has a day of tumult, trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision. It is a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.
It is Jehovah's purpose to turn the wall of the daughter of Zion into waste. His line has been stretched out. He has not kept back his hand from destruction. He has sent sorrow on tower and wall. They have become feeble together.
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.
You will go out through the holes in the city wall straight before her. You will be thrown into Harmon (a place of exile), said Jehovah.
For that reason your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.
The rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. Benhadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.
How long will all of you attack a man? How long will you try to murder him, as though he were a leaning wall or a sagging fence?
It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.' So tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out. When the wall has fallen, will you not be asked: Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?'read more.
This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'In my fury I will cause a storm to break out. In my anger rain will pour down, and hailstones will destroy the wall. I will tear down the wall that the prophets covered up with whitewash. I will level it and expose its foundation. When the wall falls, they will be destroyed by it. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.' I will unleash my rage on the wall and on those who covered it up with paint. Then I will say to you: The wall is gone, and so are those who painted it. The prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem are gone. Those who said that everything was all right, when it was not all right, are gone, declares the Lord Jehovah.
You have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm,
They protected our sheep and us day and night the whole time we were with them.
We are servants. Our God has not been turned away from us in our prison. He had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength, to put up again the house of our God and to restore its desolate places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
Jehovah said: I will become to her a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
For he is our peace, who made both (Jews and Gentiles) one, and broke down the middle barrier of partition.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.
We grope like blind men along a wall. We grope like people without eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were evening. We are like dead people among the living.
Today I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a copper wall. You will be able to stand up to the whole land. You will be able to stand up to Judah's kings, its officials, its priests, and all the common people.
I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
Paul said to him: God will strike you, white washed wall! Do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be struck?
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: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.read more.
He who talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates and the wall. And the city lies foursquare. The length is as large as the width. He measured the city with the reed, fourteen hundred miles. The length and the width and the height of it are equal. He measured the wall, two hundred feet, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. The structure of the wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
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Foundation » Laid for » Walls
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem. They are again building that uncontrolled and evil town. The walls are complete and they are repairing the bases.
Walls » Of cities » Had towers built on them
Hezekiah worked hard. He rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall. He built the towers taller and built another wall outside the city wall. He strengthened the Millo in the City of David, and made plenty of weapons and shields.
Uzziah strengthened the fortifications of Jerusalem. He built towers at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and where the wall turned.
(The Shulamite) I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. I was the one who found favor in his eyes.
Walls » Of cities » Frequently laid in ruins
King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah, son of Joash and grandson of Ahaziah of Judah, at Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He tore down a six hundred foot section of the wall around Jerusalem from Ephraim Gate to Corner Gate.
He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.
Shout a war cry against them on every side. They will surrender. Their towers will fall and their walls will be torn down. Since this is Jehovah's vengeance, take revenge against them. Do to them what they did to others.
Walls » Of cities » Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief
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.
They said to me: The small band of Jews now living there in the land is in deep trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
I got up in the night and took a small band of men with me. I said nothing to any man of what God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem, I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated. I went in the dark through the gateway of the valley past the Fountain of the Snake (Serpent's Well) as far as the place where waste material was stored. From there I viewed the broken down walls of Jerusalem and the gateways that were burned with fire. Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through. read more.
Then in the night I went up by the stream, viewed the wall and then turned back. I went in by the valley gate. The chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing. I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work. Then I said to them: You see what a bad condition we are in. How Jerusalem is a waste. It's gateways burned with fire. Come; let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.
Walls » Of cities » Instances of persons let down from
So I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from him.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town wall. She lived on the wall.
Saul learned about their plot against him. They watched the gates day and night to kill him. During the night the disciples let him down by the wall in a basket.
Walls » Of houses » Could be easily dug through
I will not join in their secret talks. I will not take part in their meetings. They killed people in anger. They crippled bulls for sport.
Then he took me to the entrance of the courtyard. As I looked, I saw a hole in the wall.
Dig a hole through the wall of your house, as they watch, and leave through it.
Walls » Of cities » Often very high
Where can we go up? Our brothers caused us to lose heart. They said: The people are stronger and taller than we are. The cities are large and the walls go up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.'
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.
Walls » Of houses » Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built
The words of the wise are like prodding goads, and like nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. They are given from one shepherd.
I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place. He will become a glorious throne to his father's house.
Walls » Of cities » Kept by watchmen night and day
I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem. They will never be silent day or night. Whoever calls on Jehovah, do not allow yourselves any rest,
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took my veil from me.
Walls » Small towns and villages were not surrounded by
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.
Houses in villages without walls are regarded as belonging to the fields of the land. They can be bought back. They will be released in the jubilee.
Walls » Illustrative » Of ordinances as a protection to the church
Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks through the windows, gazing through the lattice.
Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of temples
I have given one hundred and fifteen tons of the finest gold and two hundred and sixty five tons of pure silver for decorating the walls of the Temple
I will give to those within my Temple and its walls a memorial and a name that is better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of vineyards
Where the road went through the vineyards, it was narrow, with stonewalls on both sides. Now the angel of Jehovah stood there.
It was all grown over with thorns and nettles, and the wall of stone was broken down.
Walls » Of cities » Were battered by besieging armies
Joab and his troops surrounded Abel, so no one could go in or come out. They made a dirt ramp (rampart) up to the town wall. Then they used a battering ram to knock the wall down.
Then lay siege to it. Erect siege works against it. Build a ramp up to it. Set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. Take an iron pan and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. Then turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
Walls » Designed for separation
For he is our peace, who made both (Jews and Gentiles) one, and broke down the middle barrier of partition.
They put their doorway by my doorway and their doorposts by my doorposts. Only a wall separated me from them. They dishonored my holy name because of the disgusting things that they have done. So I destroyed them in my anger.
Walls » Illustrative » Of those who afford protection
They protected our sheep and us day and night the whole time we were with them.
Walls » Were probably often strengthened with plates of iron or brass
I will make you a fortified wall of copper to these people. Though they fight against you, they will not prevail over you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares Jehovah.
Take an iron pan and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. Then turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
Walls » Miracles connected with » Handwriting on the wall of belshazzar's palace
In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote above the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end; TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. read more.
PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Walls » Of cities » Were broad and places of public resort
Hearing this, the king tore his clothes. The people close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.
The king of Israel walked by on the city wall when a woman cried out: Help me, Your Majesty!
Walls » Illustrative » Of salvation
You will no longer hear about violence in your land or desolation and destruction within your borders. You will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
Walls » Of houses » Usually plastered
In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote above the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.'
Walls » Of cities » Strongly fortified
He will bring down Moab's high-fortified walls, level them, and throw them into the dust on the ground.
Walls » Illustrative » (bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments
For that reason your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.
How long will all of you attack a man? How long will you try to murder him, as though he were a leaning wall or a sagging fence?
Walls » Of cities » Sometimes burned
I will set fire to your city walls and burn down the fortresses King Benhadad built.
Walls » Frequently made of stone and wood together
This is to give the king word that we went to the land of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is made of large stones and has its walls supported with wood. The work is going on with diligence and they are making rapid progress.
The stones will cry out from the wall. The beams out of the woodwork will answer it.
Walls » Illustrative » Of the church as a protection to the nation
If she were a wall, we would build upon her a palace of silver. If she were a door, we would enclose her with boards of cedar. (The Shulamite) I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. I was the one who found favor in his eyes.
Walls » Of cities » Danger of approaching too near to, in time of war
the king may become angry. He might ask you: 'Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Did you not know they would shoot from the wall?' Who killed Jerubbesheth's son Abimelech? Did a woman on the wall of Thebez throw a small millstone at him and kill him? Why did you go so close to the wall? If the king asks this, tell him: 'Your man Uriah the Hittite is also dead.'
Walls » Illustrative » (daubed with untempered mortar,) of the teaching of false prophets
It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.' So tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out. When the wall has fallen, will you not be asked: Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?' read more.
This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'In my fury I will cause a storm to break out. In my anger rain will pour down, and hailstones will destroy the wall. I will tear down the wall that the prophets covered up with whitewash. I will level it and expose its foundation. When the wall falls, they will be destroyed by it. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.' I will unleash my rage on the wall and on those who covered it up with paint. Then I will say to you: The wall is gone, and so are those who painted it.
Walls » Of houses » Liable to leprosy
He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall,
Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of houses
Saul balanced the spear in his hand and said: I will give David a blow! I will pin him to the wall. David got away from him twice.
Walls » Illustrative » (brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked
Go up to Lebanon and cry out! Lift up your voice in Bashan. Cry out also from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
Walls » Illustrative » (of partition,) of separation of jews and gentiles
For he is our peace, who made both (Jews and Gentiles) one, and broke down the middle barrier of partition.
Walls » Illustrative » Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.
Walls » Of cities » The bodies of enemies sometimes fastened on, as a disgrace
They put his armor in the temple of their goddesses the Asherahs and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.
Walls » Of houses » The seat next, was the place of distinction
He ate by the wall, just as he always did. Jonathan sat across from him. Abner sat next to him. But David's place was empty.
Walls » Of cities » Custom of dedicating
When the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.
Walls » Designed for defence
They protected our sheep and us day and night the whole time we were with them.
Walls » Mentioned in scripture » Of cities
The people who live there are strong. The cities have walls and are very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Walls » Illustrative » Of the protection of God
Jehovah said: I will become to her a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
Walls » Of cities » The falling of, sometimes occasioned great destruction
The rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. Benhadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.
Walls » Of cities » Were strongly manned in war
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the Rabshakeh (the commander): Will you kindly make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants. We are used to it. Do not use the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.
Walls » Of cities » Houses sometimes broken down to repair, and fortify
You counted the houses of Jerusalem. Then you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
Walls » Of cities » Idolatrous rites performed on
He took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.
Walls » Hyssop frequently grew on
He spoke of trees and plants, from the Lebanon cedars to the hyssop that grows on walls. He talked about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Walls » Miracles connected with » Falling of the walls of jericho
So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, the wall fell down flat. The people went into the city, every man straight ahead. They captured the city.
Walls » Of cities » Houses often built on
Then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town wall. She lived on the wall.
Walls » Of cities » Adroitness of soldiers in scaling, alluded to
They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like men of war. They march every one on his way and do not break their ranks. They do not crowd each other. They march every one in his path. They burst through the weapons and do not break ranks. They rush to the city. They run on the wall. They climb into the houses. They enter in at the windows like a thief.
Walls » Illustrative » (whited,) of hypocrites
Paul said to him: God will strike you, white washed wall! Do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be struck?
Walls » Of houses » Often infested with serpents
Like a man who ran from a lion, and a bear met him! So he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Topics on Walls
Dimensions Of Walls
Ezekiel 42:20He measured all four sides. There was a wall all around it. The wall was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long and eight hundred and seventy-five feet wide. It separated what was holy from what was unholy.
Figurative Walls
Lamentations 2:18Let your cry go up to Jehovah: O wall of the daughter of Zion let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night. Give yourself no rest. Do not let your eyes hold back the drops of sorrow.
Opening Walls
Ezekiel 8:7Then he took me to the entrance of the courtyard. As I looked, I saw a hole in the wall.
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