Walls

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 55:10 OT

  Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

• 2 Kings 18:26 OT

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the…

• Song of Solomon 5:7 OT

  The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

• Isaiah 62:6 OT

  I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

• Isaiah 22:10 OT

  You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

• 2 Samuel 11:20 OT

  it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?

• 2 Samuel 11:21 OT

  Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’ ”

• 2 Samuel 20:15 OT

  They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

• Ezekiel 4:2 OT

  Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

• Joel 2:7-9 OT

  They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course. Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don’t…

• Jeremiah 49:27 OT

  “I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”

• Amos 1:7 OT

  but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its palaces.

• 2 Chronicles 25:23 OT

  Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19 OT

  They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

• Jeremiah 50:15 OT

  Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.

• Deuteronomy 28:52 OT

  They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.

• Nehemiah 1:3 OT

  They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

• Nehemiah 2:12-17 OT

  I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on. I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward…

• 1 Kings 20:30 OT

  But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

• 1 Samuel 31:10 OT

  They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

• Nehemiah 12:27 OT

  At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments,…

• 2 Kings 3:27 OT

  Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

• Acts 9:24 NT

  but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

• Acts 9:25 NT

  but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.