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Walls

16 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

12 sections

(Bowing or Tottering) of the Wicked Under Judgments
(Brazen) of Prophets in Their Testimony Against the Wicked
(Daubed with Untempered Mortar) of the Teaching of False
(Of Partition) Separation of Jews and Gentiles
(Whited) Hypocrites
Designed for Defence
Designed for Separation
Frequently Made of Stone and Wood Together
Hyssop Frequently Grew On
Miracles Connected With: Falling of the Walls of Jericho
Miracles Connected With: Handwriting on the Wall of Belshazzar's Palace
Small Towns and Villages Were not Surrounded By

(Bowing or Tottering) of the Wicked Under Judgments

Psalm 62:3 How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
Isaiah 30:13 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!

(Brazen) of Prophets in Their Testimony Against the Wicked

Jeremiah 15:20 Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.

(Daubed with Untempered Mortar) of the Teaching of False

Ezekiel 13:10–15 Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built, …

(Of Partition) Separation of Jews and Gentiles

Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

(Whited) Hypocrites

Acts 23:3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”

Designed for Defence

1 Samuel 25:16 They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

Designed for Separation

Ezekiel 43:8 When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

Frequently Made of Stone and Wood Together

Ezra 5:8 Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is …
Habakkuk 2:11 For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

Hyssop Frequently Grew On

1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

Miracles Connected With: Falling of the Walls of Jericho

Joshua 6:20 So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.

Miracles Connected With: Handwriting on the Wall of Belshazzar's Palace

Daniel 5:5 At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
Daniel 5:25–28 Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN. …

Small Towns and Villages Were not Surrounded By

Leviticus 25:31 But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
Deuteronomy 3:5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

Related topics

Walls of Cities Walls of Houses Walls of Cities were Broad and Places of Public Resort Walls of Cities were Battered by Besieging Armies Walls of Ordinances As a Protection to the Church Walls of Salvation

Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.