Topic
Walls, of the Cities
15 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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 3:5Nave Of Bashan, destroyed by the Israelites
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
- Deuteronomy 3:6Nave Of Bashan, destroyed by the Israelites
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
- Joshua 2:15Nave Of Jericho
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
- Joshua 6:1–27Nave Of Jericho
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the…
- 1 Samuel 31:10Nave Of Beth-shan
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
- 2 Samuel 11:20Nave Of Rabbah
And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
- 2 Samuel 20:15Nave Of Abel
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
- 2 Samuel 20:21Nave Of Abel
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be…
- 2 Kings 25:4Nave Double
¶ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
- Isaiah 22:11Nave Double
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
- Jeremiah 51:44Nave Of Babylon
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
- Jeremiah 51:58Nave Broad
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
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- Revelation 21:12 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the new Jerusalem
- Revelation 21:14 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the new Jerusalem
- Revelation 21:17–21 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the new Jerusalem
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 16 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Of Bashan, destroyed by the Israelites De 3:5,6
- → Of Jericho Jos 2:15; 6
- → Of Jerusalem
- See JERUSALEM
- → Of Babylon Jer 51:44
- → Broad Jer 51:58
- → Of Beth-shan 1Sa 31:10
- → Of Rabbah 2Sa 11:20
- → Of Abel 2Sa 20:15,21
- → Houses built upon Jos 2:15
- → Double 2Ki 25:4; Isa 22:11
- → Sentinels on
- See WATCHMAN
- → FIGURATIVE
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.