17 occurrences

'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

And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will be no help to him in the war, when they put up earthworks and make strong walls for the cutting off of 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

And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

Verse ConceptsFortificationsTowersWallsEmpty CitiesThings Stripped

He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

Verse ConceptsFortsKilled With The SwordSiege MoundsThe Nations Attacked

He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

Verse ConceptsAxesBattering ramsTowers

Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCartsWheelsThings ShakingNumerous As DustAutomobiles

They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Stones RejectedDrawbacks To RichesWood And Stone

The men of Arvad in your army were on your walls, and were watchmen in your towers, hanging up their arms on your walls round about; they made you completely beautiful.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsWarriorsWalled TownsPeople Made Perfect

And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodConversation

And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:

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

And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of BuildingsPlans For A New Templemeasurement

And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside.

Verse ConceptsCherubim Depicted

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