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• How long will you assail with your threats, all of you, to bring someone down - as you would pull a wall or smash a fence? (Psalms 62, 4)

• He divided the sea and led them across; he made the water stand like a wall. (Psalms 78, 13)

• Then they rebuilt the city of David with a high and solid wall protected by strong towers, and this became their fortress. (1 Maccabees 1, 33)

• The king went up to Mount Zion and when he saw the defenses, he broke his oath and ordered the surrounding wall to be demolished. (1 Maccabees 6, 62)

• In the year one hundred and fifty-three, (159 B.C.) in the second month, Alcimus ordered the demolition of the wall of the inner court of the temple. This meant no less than destroying the work of the prophets. (1 Maccabees 9, 54)

• They also held an assembly to rebuild the city. Part of the wall over a rushing stream had fallen and they built up a new wall they called Chapthenatha. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)

• Two women were charged of having performed the rite of circumcision on their sons. They publicly paraded the women throughout the city with their babies hung at their breasts. Then they hurled them down from the city wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)

• At daybreak on the fifth day, twenty young men from the troops of Maccabeus, enraged by the blasphemies they had been hearing, bravely stormed the wall and with brutal fury killed everyone who stood before them. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)

• Maccabeus, thinking of the common good of all, accepted Lysias' offer of peace. And in fact, the king granted all the demands that Maccabeus had presented to Lysias in writing. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)

• The rich man's wealth is his fortress; he relies on it as on a high wall. (Proverbs 18, 11)

• He who digs a pit may fall into it and he who pierces a wall may be bitten by a serpent; (Ecclesiastes 10, 8)

• Beware, my son, of searching beyond. Writing many books would be useless, and intense study wearies the body. (Ecclesiastes 12, 12)