A strong permanent wall built around a city for protection.
About City Wall
A strong, permanent wall was built around a city or fortress for its protection. Some cities were even surrounded by two walls. The outer wall had to be breached before the inner one could be attacked. This outer wall is sometimes called the rampart. A single wall or the inner one of two walls was most often built of stone, sometimes of mud brick. The outer wall could also be made of one of these materials or simply of piled earth.
Key References
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.
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
All Scripture References (9)
Acts (1)
One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
2 Corinthians (1)
But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
Hebrews (1)
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
Revelation (6)
The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.
The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.
And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,