Löydetty 202 Tulokset: Jericho Wall
At Jerusalem, he contrived engines of many sorts, poised on tower or on wall-corner, that discharged arrows and great boulders. Far spread his fame, such help the Lord gave him, and such greatness. (2 Chronicles 26, 15)
He it was built the high gate that leads into the Lord’s house, and added much to the Ophel wall; (2 Chronicles 27, 3)
And the four men we have named stood there befriending the captives; those that went naked must be clothed out of the spoils; then, clothed and shod, they must be refreshed with food and drink, must be anointed after their journey. No care was wanting; some, that could not walk, or were of feeble age, must ride on asses. And so they escorted them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, and restored them to their kindred, and themselves went back to Samaria. (2 Chronicles 28, 15)
No pains did he spare to rebuild the wall where it had fallen into disrepair, with towers to crown it and a second wall within; Mello, too, in the Keep of David he fortified anew, and prepared shields and all other weapons of defence. (2 Chronicles 32, 5)
It was after this that he built the wall beyond David’s Keep, out in the ravine west of Gihon, all the way round from the Fishmongers’ Gate to Ophel, raising it to a great height; set captains, too, on garrison duty in all the fortified towns of Juda. (2 Chronicles 33, 14)
Jericho, three hundred and forty-five, (Ezra 2, 34)
Slaves we were, but in our slavery the Lord did not abandon us; he deigned to win us the favour of the Persian king; we were to live still, the house of our God was to rise anew, restored from its ruins, Juda and Jerusalem should have a wall to defend them. (Ezra 9, 9)
At dead of night, I went out by the Valley Gate, past the Dragon’s Well, and on to the Scavengers’ Gate, and all the way I found the wall of Jerusalem lying in ruins, and its gates blackened with fire. (Nehemiah 2, 13)
So, at midnight, I passed along the ravine and examined the wall, returning home again by the Valley Gate; (Nehemiah 2, 15)
Next to him toiled, on this side, the men of Jericho; toiled, on that side, Zachur the son of Amri. (Nehemiah 3, 2)
then Eziel son of Araia, of the gold-merchants, then Ananias, of the apothecaries; these let out Jerusalem as far as the wall round the open square.✻ (Nehemiah 3, 8)
The Valley Gate was restored by Hanun and the men of Zanoe, coping and doors, bolts and bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall besides, right up to the Scavengers’ Gate. (Nehemiah 3, 13)
