Walls

Kinds of wall

Walls of houses and palaces

Lamentations 2:7 See also 1 Samuel 18:10–11, 1 Samuel 20:25; Isaiah 38:2; Daniel 5:5

The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Walls of towns

2 Chronicles 14:7 See also Numbers 35:4; 1 Samuel 31:10; 2 Samuel 18:24

So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

Walls of cities

Deuteronomy 3:5; Nehemiah 2:17 See also Joshua 2:15, Joshua 6:5, Joshua 6:20; 1 Kings 3:1; 2 Kings 3:27; 2 Chronicles 27:3; Psalm 55:10; Isaiah 58:12; Acts 9:25

All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

Walls of the temple

1 Kings 6:27, 1 Kings 7:12

Walls of vineyards

Matthew 21:33 See also Numbers 22:24–25; Psalm 80:12

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

The fragility of walls

Walls broken down by enemies

Deuteronomy 28:52; Proverbs 25:28; Jeremiah 50:15 See also 2 Samuel 20:15; 2 Kings 14:13, 2 Kings 25:4 the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians; 2 Chronicles 26:6, 2 Chronicles 36:19; Nehemiah 1:3; Psalm 89:40; Isaiah 5:5, Isaiah 22:5; Lamentations 2:8; Ezekiel 26:4; Amos 4:3

They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.

Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.

Walls collapsing of their own accord

Isaiah 30:13 See also 1 Kings 20:30; Psalm 62:3; Ezekiel 13:10–16

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly — in an instant!

The figurative use of walls

Denoting protection

Isaiah 25:4 See also 1 Samuel 25:16; Ezra 9:9; Isaiah 26:1; Zechariah 2:5

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

Denoting separation and impregnability

Ephesians 2:14 See also Proverbs 18:11; Isaiah 59:10; Jeremiah 1:18; Ezekiel 22:30; Acts 23:3

For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

The walls in the new Jerusalem

Revelation 21:12–19