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• For example, two women were charged with having circumcised their children. They were paraded publicly round the town, with their babies hung at their breasts, and then hurled over the city wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)

• At daybreak on the fifth day, twenty young men of Maccabaeus' forces, fired with indignation at the blasphemies, manfully assaulted the wall, with wild courage cutting down everyone they encountered. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)

• Maccabaeus, thinking only of the common good, agreed to all that Lysias proposed, and whatever Maccabaeus submitted to Lysias in writing concerning the Jews was granted by the king. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)

• But Judas and his men invoked the great Sovereign of the world who without battering-ram or siege-engine had overthrown Jericho in the days of Joshua; they then made a fierce assault on the wall. (2 Maccabees 12, 15)

• The wealth of the rich forms a stronghold, a high wall, as the rich supposes. (Proverbs 18, 11)

• there it all lay, deep in thorns, entirely overgrown with weeds, and its stone wall broken down. (Proverbs 24, 31)

• He who digs a pit falls into it, he who undermines a wall gets bitten by a snake, (Ecclesiastes 10, 8)

• Furthermore, my child, you must realise that writing books involves endless hard work, and that much study wearies the body. (Ecclesiastes 12, 12)

• My love is like a gazelle, like a young stag. See where he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the window, he peers through the opening. (Song of Solomon 2, 9)

• I am a wall, and my breasts represent its towers. And under their eyes I have found true peace. (Song of Solomon 8, 10)

• He next makes a worthy home for it, lets it into the wall, fixes it with an iron clamp. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 15)

• A heart founded on intelligent reflection is like a stucco decoration on a smooth wall. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 17)