12 occurrences in 12 translations

'Fence' in the Bible

Haven't you surrounded him with a fence on all sides, around his house, and around all that he owns? You have blessed everything he puts his hands on and you have increased his livestock in the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Work OfBlessed By GodGod's ProtectionFamily FirstProtecting Your Familypossessions

Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.

Verse ConceptsAnatomyHuman SkinJoining Flesh And Bonesmuscles

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;But the harvest will be a heapIn a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Verse ConceptsReapingPlanting Seeds

And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.

Verse ConceptsNumberingCounting BuildingsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDLukewarmnessThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsPeople OvercomingThe Fact Of That DayBattle

And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

And the outer wall, by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, was fifty cubits long.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Walls

Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysThornsPaths Of The WickedNot FindingHard TasksWeedPathsroadblocks

“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsTowersVineyardWallsFortsExcavationTreading GrapesLeasinglent

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsPitsTowersVineyardWinepressFortsDigging PitsTreading GrapesBeginning To TeachJesus Using ParablesLeasingHoles In The Ground

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