Walls

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 2 Corinthians 11:33 NT

  I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.

• Leviticus 25:31 OT

  But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

• Ezekiel 13:10 OT

  “ ‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.

• Daniel 5:5 OT

  In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

• Ecclesiastes 12:11 OT

  The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

• Isaiah 22:23 OT

  I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

• Leviticus 14:37 OT

  He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall,

• Amos 5:19 OT

  As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

• Genesis 49:6 OT

  My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

• Ezekiel 8:7 OT

  He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

• Ezekiel 8:8 OT

  Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.” When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.

• Ezekiel 12:5 OT

  Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

• 1 Samuel 20:25 OT

  The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.

• 1 Kings 4:33 OT

  He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

• Joshua 6:20 OT

  So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in…

• Daniel 5:25-28 OT

  “This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.’ “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end. TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.…

• Isaiah 26:1 OT

  In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

• Isaiah 60:18 OT

  Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

• Zechariah 2:5 OT

  For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

• Song of Solomon 8:9 OT

  If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

• Song of Solomon 2:9 OT

  My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

• Isaiah 5:5 OT

  Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

• Proverbs 18:11 OT

  The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

• Jeremiah 22:20 OT

  “Go up to Lebanon, and cry. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers have been destroyed.