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Ask a QuestionMy beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind the wall of our house, he looks in through the windows, he glances through the lattice.
And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.
Behold, when the wall is fallen, will you not be asked, Where is the coating with which you [prophets] daubed it?
But [Aholibah] carried her harlotries further, for she saw men pictured upon the wall, the pictures of the Chaldeans sketched in bright red pigment,
From the floor to above the entrance were cherubim and palm trees made, and also on the wall of the temple [the Holy Place].
[The Assyrian leader] remembers and summons his bravest men; they stumble in their march. They hasten to the city's wall, and their movable defense shelter is prepared and set up.
And of the other cherub one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also five cubits, joined the wing of the first cherub.
And the Fish Gate the sons of Hassenaah built; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
Next to them repaired Jedaiah son of Harumaph, opposite his own house. And next to him repaired Hattush son of Hashabneiah.
After him Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired from the door of Eliashib's house to the end of his house.
And the servants of the priests dwelling on Ophel [the hill south of the temple] repaired to opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.
Those who built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves so that everyone worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other hand,
I also held fast to the work on this wall; and we bought no land. And all my servants were gathered there for the work.
When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us feared and fell far in their own esteem, for they saw that this work was done by our God.
And the sons of the singers gathered together from the plain and circuit around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites,
At the Fountain Gate they went up straight ahead by the stairs of the City of David at the wall's ascent above David's house to the Water Gate on the east.
And you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses [to get materials] to fortify the [city] wall.
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick [to accommodate side chambers]; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the temple proper on every side.
And all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation of it.
And he who spoke to me had a golden measuring reed (rod) to measure the city and its gates and its wall.