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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PARTITION, THE MIDDLE WALL OF

par-tish'-un, par-tish'-un (to mesotoichon tou phragmou (Ephesians 2:14)):

1. The Barrier in the Temple

What Paul here asserts is that Christ is our peace, the peace of both Jewish and Gentile believers. He has made them both to be one in Himself, and has broken down the middle wall of partition which divided them from one another. Then the apostle regards Jew and Gentile as two, who by a fresh act of creation in Christ are made into one new man. In the former of these similes he refers to an actual wall in the temple at Jerusalem, beyond which no one was allowed to pass unless he were a Jew, the balustrade or barrier which marked the limit up to which a Gentile might advance but no farther. Curiously, this middle wall of partition had a great deal to do with Paul's arrest and imprisonment, for the multitude of the Jews became infuriated, not merely because of their general hostility to him as an apostle of Christ and a preacher of the gospel for the world, but specially because it was erroneously supposed that he had brought Trophimus the Ephesian past this barrier into the temple (Acts 21:29), and that he had in this manner profaned the temple (Acts 24:6), or, as it is put in Acts 21:28, he had `brought Greeks into the temple and polluted this holy place.' In the assault which they thereupon made on Paul they violently seized and dragged him out of the temple-dragged him outside the balustrade. The Levites at once shut the gates, to prevent the possibility of any further profanation, and Paul would have been torn in pieces, had not the Roman commander and his soldiers forcibly prevented.

2. Herod's Temple; Its Divisions; the Courts:

In building the temple Herod the Great had enclosed a large area to form the various courts. The temple itself consisted of the two divisions, the Holy Place, entered by the priests every day, and the Holy of Holies into which the high priest entered alone once every year. Immediately outside the temple there was the Court of the Priests, and in it was placed the great altar of burnt offering. Outside of this again was the Court of the Sons of Israel, and beyond this the Court of the Women. The site of the temple itself and the space occupied by the various courts already mentioned formed a raised plateau or platform. "From it you descended at various points down 5 steps and through gates in a lofty wall, to find yourself overlooking another large court-the outer court to which Gentiles, who desired to see something of the glories of the temple and to offer gifts and sacrifices to the God of the Jews, were freely admitted. Farther in than this court they were forbidden, on pain of death, to go. The actual boundary line was not the high wall with its gates, but a low stone barrier about 5 ft. in height, which ran round at the bottom of 14 more steps" (J. Armitage Robinson, D.D., Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, 59; see also Edersheim, The Temple, Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ, 46).

The middle wall of partition was called Coregh, and was built of marble beautifully ornamented.

3. The Court of the Gentiles:

The Court of the Gentiles formed the lowest and the outermost enclosure of all the courts of the sanctuary. It was paved with the finest variegated marble. Its name signified that it was open to all, Jews or Gentiles alike. It was very large, and is said by Jewish tradition to have formed a square of 750 ft. It was in this court that the oxen and sheep and the doves for the sacrifices were sold as in a market. It was in this court too that there were the tables of the money-changers, which Christ Himself overthrew when He drove out the sheep and oxen and them that bought and sold in His Father's house. The multitudes assembling in this court must have been very great, especially on occasions such as the Passover and Pentecost and at the other great feasts, and the din of voices must oftentimes have been most disturbing. As already seen, beyond this court no Gentile might go.

See TEMPLE.

In the year 1871, while excavations were being made on the site of the temple by the Palestine Exploration Fund, M. Clermont-Ganneau discovered one of the pillars which Josephus describes as having been erected upon the very barrier or middle wall of partition, to which Paul refers. This pillar is now preserved in the Museum at Constantinople and is inscribed with a Greek inscription in capital or uncial letters, which is translated as follows:

NO MAN OF ANOTHER NATION

TO ENTER WITHIN THE FENCE AND

ENCLOSURE ROUND THE TEMPLE,

AND WHOEVER IS CAUGHT WILL

HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME THAT

HIS DEATH ENSUES

While Paul was writing the Epistle to the Ephesians at Rome, this barrier in the temple at Jerusalem was still standing, yet the chained prisoner of Jesus Christ was not afraid to write that Christ had broken down the middle wall of partition, and had thus admitted Gentiles who were far off, strangers and foreigners, to all the privileges of access to God in ancient times possessed by Israel alone; that separation between Jew and Gentile was done away with forever in Christ.

4. The Throwing Down of the Barrier:

If Paul wrote the Epistle to the Ephesians in 60 or 61 A.D., then the actual barrier of stone remained in its position in the Court of the Gentiles not more than some 10 years, for it was thrown down in the burning of the temple by the Roman army. And out of those ruins a fragment has been excavated in our own day, containing the very inscription threatening death to the Gentileintruder, and reminding us that it is only in Christ Jesus that we now draw nigh unto God, and that we are thus one body in Christ, one new man. Christ has broken down the middle wall of partition, for He, in His own person, is our peace.

John Rutherfurd

WALL

wol.

See ARCHITECTURE; CITY; FORTIFICATION; HOUSE; JERUSALEM; VILLAGE.

MIDDLE WALL

See PARTITION.

Greek

3320. mesotoichon -- a middle wall
... a middle wall. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: mesotoichon Phonetic
Spelling: (mes-ot'-oy-khon) Short Definition: a middle wall, partition wall ...
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5109. toichos -- a wall
... toichos. 5110 . a wall. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: toichos
Phonetic Spelling: (toy'-khos) Short Definition: a wall Definition: a wall. ...
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5038. teichos -- a wall
... a wall. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: teichos Phonetic Spelling:
(ti'-khos) Short Definition: a wall Definition: a wall, especially of a city. ...
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5418. phragmos -- a fencing in, a fence
... partition. Word Origin from phrasso Definition a fencing in, a fence NASB Word
Usage barrier (1), hedges (1), wall (2). hedge, partition. ...
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4917. sunthlao -- to crush together
... The verb means to shatter. We are familiar with an automobile that dashes against
a stone wall, a tree, or a train and the ruin that follows. (3039 ). ...
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1115. Golgotha -- Golgotha, a hill near Jer.
... Indeclinable Transliteration: Golgotha Phonetic Spelling: (gol-goth-ah') Short
Definition: Golgotha Definition: Golgotha, a knoll outside the wall of Jerusalem ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1443. gadar -- to wall up or off, to build a wall
... 1442, 1443. gadar. 1444 . to wall up or off, to build a wall. Transliteration:
gadar Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-dar') Short Definition: build. Word Origin a prim ...
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2346. chomah -- a wall
... 2345, 2346. chomah. 2347 . a wall. Transliteration: chomah Phonetic Spelling:
(kho-maw') Short Definition: wall. Word Origin from ...
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3796. kothel -- wall (of a house)
... 3795, 3796. kothel. 3797 . wall (of a house). Transliteration: kothel
Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-thel) Short Definition: wall. Word ...
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7023. qir -- a wall
qir or qir or qirah. 7022, 7023. qir or qir or qirah. 7024 . a wall.
Transliteration: qir or qir or qirah Phonetic Spelling: (keer) Short Definition: ...
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2434. chayits -- a party wall
... 2433, 2434. chayits. 2435 . a party wall. Transliteration: chayits Phonetic
Spelling: (khah'-yits) Short Definition: wall. Word ...
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7791. shur -- a wall
... 7790, 7791. shur. 7792 . a wall. Transliteration: shur Phonetic Spelling:
(shoor) Short Definition: wall. Word Origin from the same ...
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1447. gader -- a wall
... 1446, 1447. gader. 1448 . a wall. Transliteration: gader Phonetic Spelling:
(gaw-dare') Short Definition: wall. Word Origin from ...
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1448. gederah -- a wall
... 1447, 1448. gederah or gedereth. 1449 . a wall. Transliteration: gederah or
gedereth Phonetic Spelling: (ghed-ay-raw') Short Definition: walls. ... hedge, wall. ...
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3797. kethal -- a wall.
... a wall. Transliteration: kethal Phonetic Spelling: (keth-al') Short Definition:
wall. Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to kothel Definition a wall. wall ...
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846. ushsharna -- perhaps a wall
... 845, 846. ushsharna. 847 . perhaps a wall. Transliteration: ushsharna Phonetic
Spelling: (oosh-ar-naw') Short Definition: structure. ... wall. ...
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Library

The First Wall.
... I. The Three Walls of the Romanists. The First Wall. Let us, in the first
place, attack the first wall. It has been devised, that ...
/.../luther/first principles of the reformation/the first wall.htm

The Second Wall.
... I. The Three Walls of the Romanists. The Second Wall. The second wall is
even more tottering and weak: that they alone pretend to ...
/.../luther/first principles of the reformation/the second wall.htm

The Third Wall.
... I. The Three Walls of the Romanists. The Third Wall. The third wall falls
of itself, as soon as the first two have fallen; for if ...
/.../luther/first principles of the reformation/the third wall.htm

The Builders on the Wall
... After the Exile Chapter 53 The Builders on the Wall. ... Along the whole extent of
that three miles of wall his influence was constantly felt. ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 53 the builders on.htm

The Wall Rebuilt.
... THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. LESSON XIV. THE WALL REBUILT. "They that be of thee
shall build the old waste places; thou shall raise up the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xiv the wall rebuilt.htm

If She be a Wall, we Will Build Upon it Bulwarks of Silver; if She ...
... CHAPTER VIII. 9. If she be a wall, we will build upon it bulwarks of silver;
if she be a door we will frame it with boards of cedar. ...
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Wesley Pushed from a High Wall
... Chapter 6. First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs; Wesley's Protest
against Ungodliness Wesley Pushed from a High Wall. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley pushed from a high.htm

The Little Chamber on the Wall.
... THE LITTLE CHAMBER ON THE WALL. ... "Let us make for him a little chamber on the wall."
And so they did, and when Elisha came again he lodged there. ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxviii the little chamber.htm

I am a Wall, and My Breasts Like Towers; Then was I in his Eyes as ...
... CHAPTER VIII. 10. I am a wall, and my breasts like towers; then was I in
his eyes as one that found favor. The Spouse, in ecstasies ...
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The Broad Wall
... The Broad Wall. A Sermon (No.3281). Published on Thursday, December 21st, 1911,.
Delivered by. CH SPURGEON,. ... "The broad wall.""Nehemiah 3:8. ...
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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from "unwalled villages" (Ezek. 38:11; Leviticus 25:29-34). They were made thick and strong (Numbers 13:28; Deuteronomy 3:5). Among the Jews walls were built of stone, some of those in the temple being of great size (1 Kings 6:7; 7:9-12; 20:30; Mark 13:1, 2). The term is used metaphorically of security and safety (Isaiah 26:1; 60:18; Revelation 21:12-20). (see FENCE.)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

2. (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.

3. (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.

4. (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.

5. (n.) The side of a level or drift.

6. (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.

7. (v. t.) To enclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

8. (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.

9. (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

Thesaurus

Wall (227 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope;
a wall knot; a wale. ... 7. (vt) To enclose with a wall, or as with a wall. ...
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Wall-builders (2 Occurrences)
Wall-builders. Wall, Wall-builders. Walled . Multi-Version
Concordance Wall-builders (2 Occurrences). 2 Kings 12:12 ...
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Town-wall (1 Occurrence)
Town-wall. Townspeople, Town-wall. Trace . Multi-Version Concordance
Town-wall (1 Occurrence). Joshua 2:15 Then she ...
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City-wall (1 Occurrence)
City-wall. City's, City-wall. Civil . Multi-Version Concordance
City-wall (1 Occurrence). Joshua 2:15 And she let them ...
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Shur (6 Occurrences)
... An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern
border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt ...
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Angle (19 Occurrences)
... king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah,
prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem ...
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Partition (4 Occurrences)
... different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating
boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one ...
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Pisseth (6 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 25:22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of
all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. ...
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Daubed (9 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace;
and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with ...
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Daubing (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed. 3. (n.) A rough coat of
mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast. ...
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Bible Concordance

Wall (227 Occurrences)

Matthew 21:33 Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Mark 12:1 And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Luke 19:43 For the time is coming upon thee when thy foes will throw up around thee earthworks and a wall, investing thee and hemming thee in on every side.
(WEY BBE)

Acts 9:25 but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 23:3 Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 11:33 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:15 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 21:19 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.
(KJV WBS)

Genesis 49:22 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 14:22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 14:29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 15:8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 5:9 and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering on the wall of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin-offering.
(DBY)

Leviticus 11:30 the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 14:37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 22:24 Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 22:25 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 35:4 "The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 6:5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 3:20 And Ehud hath come unto him, and he is sitting in the upper chamber of the wall which he hath for himself, and Ehud saith, 'A word of God I have unto thee;' and he riseth from off the throne;
(YLT)

Judges 3:24 and he hath gone out, and his servants have come in, and look, and lo, the doors of the upper chamber are bolted, and they say, 'He is only covering his feet in the inner chamber of the wall.'
(YLT)

1 Samuel 18:11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 19:10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 20:25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's place was empty.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 25:16 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 25:22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall. "
(WEB KJV YLT)

1 Samuel 25:34 For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall. "
(WEB KJV YLT)

1 Samuel 31:10 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 31:12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 5:20 And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 11:20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he asks you,'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 11:21 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say,'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 11:22 So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?
(BBE)

2 Samuel 11:24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 18:24 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 20:15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 20:16 Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 20:21 The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city." The woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 22:30 For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 3:1 Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars:
(Root in KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:5 Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side chambers all around.
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1 Kings 6:6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.
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1 Kings 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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1 Kings 6:27 He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
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1 Kings 6:31 For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.
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1 Kings 6:33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;
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1 Kings 7:12 The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.
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1 Kings 9:15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
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1 Kings 11:27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
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1 Kings 14:10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.
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1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
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1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
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1 Kings 21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
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2 Kings 3:25 And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth only they left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
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2 Kings 3:27 Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
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2 Kings 4:10 Let us make, please, a little chamber on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."
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2 Kings 6:26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
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2 Kings 6:30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.
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2 Kings 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.
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2 Kings 9:33 He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
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2 Kings 12:12 And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.
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2 Kings 14:13 Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
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2 Kings 18:26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
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2 Kings 18:27 But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?"
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2 Kings 20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
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2 Kings 22:6 to artificers, and to builders, and 'to repairers of' the wall, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the house;
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2 Kings 25:1 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
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2 Kings 25:4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
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1 Chronicles 11:8 He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
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1 Chronicles 14:11 So they went up to Baal-perazim, and David overcame them there, and David said, God has let the forces fighting against me be broken by my hand, as a wall is broken down by rushing water; so they gave that place the name of Baal-perazim.
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2 Chronicles 3:11 The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
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2 Chronicles 3:12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
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2 Chronicles 14:7 For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
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2 Chronicles 25:23 Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
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2 Chronicles 26:6 He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
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2 Chronicles 26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
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2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
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2 Chronicles 32:5 He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
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2 Chronicles 32:18 They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
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2 Chronicles 36:19 They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.
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Ezra 5:3 At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
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Ezra 5:9 Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
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Nehemiah 1:3 They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.
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Nehemiah 2:8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.
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Nehemiah 2:15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
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Nehemiah 2:17 Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
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Nehemiah 3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
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Nehemiah 3:6 And the gate of the old wall repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its locks, and its bars.
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Nehemiah 3:8 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall.
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