Book Filter:
Gen. Rev.
Can't find the answer are looking for?
Ask a QuestionHe built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.
So I went up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.
Moreover Jehoiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and hung its doors, with its bolts and bars.
Malchijah the son of Rechab, leader of the district of Beth Haccerem, repaired the Refuse Gate; he built it and hung its doors with its bolts and bars.
After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs in front of his dwelling.
But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
Then I said to the nobles, the rulers, and the rest of the people, "The work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one another on the wall.
from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves villages all around Jerusalem.
and his brethren, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. Ezra the scribe went before them.
And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.
"You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD.
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the temple.
Are you better than No Amon That was situated by the River, That had the waters around her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall was the sea?
'For I,' says the LORD, 'will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.' "
Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
He who digs a pit will fall into it, And whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.
We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
"Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, 'Peace!' when there is no peace - and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar -
'He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you.
And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chambers, at the front of the chambers, toward the outer court; its length was fifty cubits.