WALLS, OF THE CITIES

Passages on this topic · 18

• Deuteronomy 3:5

  All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many villages without walls.

• Deuteronomy 3:6

  We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

• Joshua 2:15

  Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

• 1 Samuel 31:10

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

• 2 Samuel 11:20

  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 20:15

  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.

• 2 Samuel 20:21

  The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

• 2 Kings 25:4

  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

• Isaiah 22:11

  You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

• Jeremiah 51:44

  I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations shall not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

• Revelation 21:12

  having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

• Revelation 21:14

  The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

• Revelation 21:17

  Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

• Revelation 21:18

  The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

• Revelation 21:19

  The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

• Revelation 21:20

  the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.

• Revelation 21:21

  The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.