31 occurrences in 13 translations

'Walls' in the Bible

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBattering ramsFortsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Evil ThingsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of Satan's WorksUseless LabourOne's DeedsAbandoning Idols

You didn't go up to repair the breaches in the walls and you didn't build the walls so Israel's house would be able to endure battle on the Day of the LORD.

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

Pharaoh will not help him with his great army and vast horde in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.

Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood within her walls so that her time of judgment has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled!

Verse ConceptsSheddingThe Day Of JudgementPeople Polluting ThemselvesKilling Many People

"She became even more sexually immoral when she saw the images of the Chaldean men who had been carved in red on their walls.

Verse ConceptsPortraitsGrowth Of EvilSpiritual Harlotry

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsTowersWallsEmpty CitiesThings Stripped

He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

Verse ConceptsAxesBattering ramsTowers

By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCartsWheelsThings ShakingNumerous As DustAutomobiles

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Stones RejectedDrawbacks To RichesWood And Stone

"Soldiers from Persia, Lud, and Libya, served in your army. They were your mighty soldiers. Their helmets and shields adorned your barracks walls, and they won battle decorations for you.

Verse ConceptsHead coveringArmoryHelmetsEarthly ArmiesSource Of Honour

The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsWarriorsWalled TownsPeople Made Perfect

Ships of Tarshish are thy double walls of thy merchandise, And thou art filled and honoured greatly, In the heart of the seas.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSeafaringCommerceShips For TradingIn The Heart Of The Sea

Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodConversation

And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Verse ConceptsFortificationsVillagesWalled TownsUnguardedEzekiel Invasion

Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysDimensions Of PillarsMeasuring The Temple

And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of ChambersDimensions Of DoorwaysDimensions Of WallsMeasuring The Temple

And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysDimensions Of Pillars

Next, he measured the Temple walls at six cubits high and the width of the side chambers at four cubits around all four sides of the Temple.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of ChambersDimensions Of WallsRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

The side chambers consisted of three stories, each above the other, with 30 chambers in each story. The side chambers extended out from the wall that faced the inside of the chambers where the chambers were fastened together, but the chamber walls were not fastened directly into the Temple walls themselves.

Verse ConceptsThirtyDecksThree Parts Of ConstructionsRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of BuildingsPlans For A New Templemeasurement

He (the angel) measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches (porticoes) of the courtyard.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Buildings

The thresholds, the latticed windows, and the galleries all around their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

Verse ConceptsNarrownessWindows For The TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

from the ground to above the doorway, as well as on the walls of the main sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsCherubim Depicted

The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.

Verse ConceptsTablesWood

And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

Verse ConceptsCherubim Depicted

There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

Verse ConceptsWindows For The Temple

There was a stone wall around the inside of them, around the four of them, with ovens built at the base of the walls on all sides.

Verse ConceptsFour Other Things

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