🏷 Walls
84 verse references from Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897)
Designed for defence
Mentioned in scripture
Of cities.
Of temples.
Of houses.
Of vineyards.
Of cities
Had towers built on them.
Houses often built on.
Were broad and places of public resort.
Were strongly manned in war.
Houses sometimes broken down to repair, and fortify.
Danger of approaching too near to, in time of war.
Were battered by besieging armies.
Adroitness of soldiers in scaling alluded to.
Frequently laid in ruins.
Destruction of, a punishment and cause of grief.
The falling of, sometimes occasioned great destruction.
The bodies of enemies sometimes fastened on, as a disgrace.
Custom of dedicating.
idolatrous rites performed on.
Instances of persons let down from.
Of houses
Usually plastered.
Had nails or pegs fastened into them when built.
Liable to leprosy.
Often infested with serpents.
The seat next, was the place of distinction.
Hyssop frequently grew on
Miracles connected with
Falling of the walls of Jericho.
Handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace.
Illustrative
Of the protection of God.
Of those who afford protection.
Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit.
(Brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked.
(Of partition,) of separation of Jews and Gentiles.
(Daubed with untempered mortar,) of the teaching of false prophets.
(Whited,) of hypocrites.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), both public domain; digitised by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and arranged by the Bible Topics Dataset (CC BY 4.0). The references follow the King James numbering of verses.
