Torrey's Topical Index
Walls
Walls
Designed for separation - Eze 43:8; Eph 2:14
Designed for defence - 1Sa 25:16
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
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
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