But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall."
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.
But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
Judah said, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall."
Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set [there] the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.
They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon;
I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.
Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.
Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
in which was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.
So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. [One went] on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;
By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward.
The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,
Then I testified against them, and said to them, "Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on, they didn't come on the Sabbath.
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD."
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"
Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
"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.
For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.
For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. the LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, the LORD of Armies, my King, and my God.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
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.
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
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;
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
For I,' says the LORD, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
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