Bible verses about Walls
Scripture references about Walls, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Walls in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- 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