Bible Verses About Walls of the Cities

All these are cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;

and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants;

And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house is in the side of the wall, and in the wall she is dwelling;

and they place his weapons in the house of Ashtaroth, and his body they have fixed on the wall of Beth-Shan.

then, it hath been, if the king's fury ascend, and he hath said to thee, Wherefore did ye draw nigh unto the city to fight? did ye not know that they shoot from off the wall?

and they go in and lay siege against him, in Abel of Beth-Maachah, and cast up a mount against the city, and it standeth in a trench, and all the people who are are with Joab are destroying, to cause the wall to fall.

The matter is not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim--Sheba son of Bichri his name--hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, `Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.'

then the city is broken up, and all the men of war go by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that are by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans are against the city round about, and the king goeth the way of the plain.

And a ditch ye made between the two walls, For the waters of the old pool, And ye have not looked unto its Maker, And its Framer of old ye have not seen.

having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are those of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel,

and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;

and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city is pure gold--like to pure glass;

and the foundations of the wall of the city with every precious stone have been adorned; the first foundation jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city is pure gold--as transparent glass.