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Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.
Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
'However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
"The common-land of the cities which you will give the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.
Then they called out with a loud voice in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and trouble them, that they might take the city.
After him the Levites, under Rehum the son of Bani, made repairs. Next to him Hashabiah, leader of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
After him Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, made repairs by his house.
And between the upper room at the corner, as far as the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, "Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall."
Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Also in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came to them.
So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of God, likewise I and the half of the rulers with me;
How long will you attack a man? You shall be slain, all of you, Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall; He is looking through the windows, Gazing through the lattice.
If she is a wall, We will build upon her A battlement of silver; And if she is a door, We will enclose her With boards of cedar.
So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall.
"Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?' "
from the space above the door, even to the inner room, as well as outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure.
From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the sanctuary, cherubim and palm trees were carved.