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	Nave's—Walls, Of The

Walls

Designed for separation—Eze 43:8; Eph 2:14

Designed for defence—1Sa 25:16

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Of cities
• —Nu 13:28
• Of temples
• —1Ch 29:4; Isa 56:5
• Of houses
• —1Sa 18:11
• Of vineyards
• —Nu 22:24; Pr 24:31

Frequently made of stone and wood together—Ezr 5:8; Hab 2:11

Were probably often strengthened with plates of iron or brass—Jer 15:20; Eze 4:3

OF CITIES

• Often very high
• —De 1:28; 3:5
• Strongly fortified
• —Isa 2:15; 25:12
• Had towers built on them
• —2Ch 26:9; 32:5; Ps 48:12; So 8:10
• Houses often built on
• —Jos 2:15
• Were broad and places of public resort
• —2Ki 6:26,30; Ps 55:10
• Were strongly manned in war
• —2Ki 18:26
• Kept by watchmen night and day
• —So 5:7; Isa 62:6
• Houses sometimes broken down to repair, and fortify
• —Isa 22:10
• Danger of approaching too near to, in time of war
• —2Sa 11:20,21
• Were battered by besieging armies
• —2Sa 20:15; Eze 4:2,3
• Adroitness of soldiers in scaling alluded to
• —Joe 2:7-9
• Sometimes burned
• —Jer 49:27; Am 1:7
• Frequently laid in ruins
• —2Ch 25:23; 36:19; Jer 50:15
• Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief
• —De 28:52; Ne 1:3; 2:12-17
• The falling of, sometimes occasioned great destruction
• —1Ki 20:30
• The bodies of enemies sometimes fastened on, as a disgrace
• —1Sa 31:10
• Custom of dedicating
• —Ne 12:27
• idolatrous rites performed on
• —2Ki 3:27
• Instances of persons let down from
• —Jos 2:15; Ac 9:24,25; 2Co 11:33

Small towns and villages were not surrounded by—Le 25:31; De 3:5

OF HOUSES

• Usually plastered
• —Eze 13:10; Da 5:5
• Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built
• —Ec 12:11; Isa 22:23
• Liable to leprosy
• —Le 14:37
• Often infested with serpents
• —Am 5:19
• Could be easily dug through
• —Ge 49:6; Eze 8:7,8; 12:5
• The seat next, was the place of distinction
• —1Sa 20:25

Hyssop frequently grew on—1Ki 4:33

MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH

• Falling of the walls of Jericho
• —Jos 6:20
• Handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar's palace
• —Da 5:5,25-28

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of salvation
• —Isa 26:1; 60:18
• Of the protection of God
• —Zec 2:5
• Of those who afford protection
• —1Sa 25:16; Isa 2:15
• Of the Church as a protection to the nation
• —So 8:9,10
• Of ordinances as a protection to the Church
• —So 2:9; Isa 5:5
• Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit
• —Pr 18:11
• (Brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked
• —Jer 15:20
• (Bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments
• —Ps 62:3; Isa 30:13
• (Of partition,) of separation of Jews and Gentiles
• —Eph 2:14
• (Daubed with untempered mortar,) of the teaching of false
• prophets—Eze 13:10-15
• (Whited,) of hypocrites
• —Ac 23:3