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The practice common in Palestine of carrying foundations down to the solid rock, as in the case of the temple, with structures intended to be permanent. (Luke 6:48) A feature of some parts of Solomon’s buildings, as described by Josephus, corresponds remarkably to the method adopted at Nineveh of incrusting or veneering a wall of brick or stone with slabs of a more costly material, as marble or alabaster. Another use of walls in Palestine is to support mountain roads Or terraces formed on the sides of hills for purposes of cultivation. The “path of the vineyards,” (Numbers 22:24) is a pathway through vineyards, with walls on each side.
In the Bible
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Verses where Walls is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Chronicles 29:4
three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,
- 1 Kings 4:13
Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
- 1 Kings 6:5
Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- 1 Kings 6:6
The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
- 1 Kings 6:15
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- 1 Kings 6:16
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
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Scripture on Walls
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- Amos 1Exodus 14Leviticus 14Numbers 222 Kings 25Ezra 5Isaiah 60Jeremiah 1Jeremiah 39Jeremiah 49Jeremiah 51Jeremiah 52Lamentations 2Ezekiel 22Ezekiel 27Revelation 21Genesis 6Leviticus 25Deuteronomy 1Deuteronomy 2Deuteronomy 3Deuteronomy 281 Kings 41 Chronicles 292 Chronicles 32 Chronicles 82 Chronicles 142 Chronicles 26Nehemiah 2Nehemiah 4Job 24Psalms 51Psalms 55Psalms 80Psalms 89Psalms 122Psalms 144Proverbs 25Song of Solomon 5Isaiah 25Isaiah 26Isaiah 49Isaiah 54Isaiah 56Isaiah 62Jeremiah 5Jeremiah 21Jeremiah 50Ezekiel 5Ezekiel 17Ezekiel 33Ezekiel 38Ezekiel 46Joel 2Amos 4Micah 7Nahum 3Zechariah 2Luke 6Luke 19Hebrews 11
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More illustrations of Walls
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Brooklyn Museum - Walls of Jerusalem North Side - James Tissot
James Tissot
Brooklyn Museum - Reconstruction of Golgotha and the Holy Sepulchre, Seen from the Walls of the Judicial Gate - James Tissot
James Tissot
Brooklyn Museum - Reconstruction of Golgotha and the Holy Sepulchre, Seen from the Walls of Herod's Palace - James Tissot
James Tissot
Voices on Walls
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Sources · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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