Topic
Battlement
2 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 22:8Easton · Smith
¶ When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
- Jeremiah 5:10Easton · Smith
¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 2 references
A parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (Deut. 22:8). In Jer. 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
bat'-'-l-ment.
See FORTIFICATION; HOUSE.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.