The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.

I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

After them the men of Tekoa worked on another section, from opposite the great protruding tower to the wall of Ophel.

When the wall had been rebuilt and I had positioned the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper.

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen on the walls!

The Beloved: I was a wall, and my breasts were like fortress towers. Then I found favor in his eyes.

The fortified city (along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

Foreigners will rebuild your walls; their kings will serve you. Even though I struck you down in my anger, I will restore my favor and have compassion on you.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.

They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.

So I will set fire to Rabbah’s city wall; fire will consume her fortresses. War cries will be heard on the day of battle; a strong gale will blow on the day of the windstorm.

He showed me this: I saw the sovereign One standing by a tin wall holding tin in his hand.

The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman throw an upper millstone down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?’ just say to him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’”

Hezekiah energetically rebuilt every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, and fortified the terrace of the City of David. He made many weapons and shields.