(3) Another use of walls in Palestine is to sup port mountain roads or terraces formed on the sides of hills for purposes of cultivation (Rob.
493. iii, 45)• (4) The "paths of the vineyards" (Num. xxii: 24) is illustrated by Robinson as a pathway through vineyards, with walls on each side (H. NV. P. Smith, Bib. Diet.) Figurative. (1) God and his salvation are a wall, and wall of fire, to the church, whereby she is protected from all danger (Zech. ii:5; Is. xxvi:i ; Ezek. xl), etc. (2) And the government, safety, and strength of a church or nation, are represented as walls (Ps. li :i8; Is. v :5 ; Rev. 12; Ezek. xl), etc. (3) Great men are likened to walls; they are eminently instrumental in the protection and safeguard of a nation (Is.
(4) David and his men were as a wall to protect Nabal's flocks from the Arabs and wild beasts (I Sam. xxv:t6). (5) Jeremiah was like a fenced brazen wall; for God enabled him cuura geously to declare the truth, and preserved him amidst all the malicious designs of his enemies (Jer. i :t8; xv :20). (6) The ceremonial law was
a wall of partition; it so separated between the Jews and Gentiles, that few of the latter en tered the church during its continuance (Eph. ii:i4). (7) The Chaldeans were like a wall of iron round about Jerusalem; they, in a bold and determined manner, laid siege to it till they had taken it (Ezek. iv :3). (8) Wicked men are like a bowing wall; their ruin proceeds from them selves and is very sudden and dreadful (Ps. lxii: 3). (9) Jerusalem was inhabited without walls, when it had full peace, and its suburbs were large (Zech. ( to) In the day thy walls arc to be built, shall the decree for repairing it be published, and the decree against it be far removed, or hin dered (Mic. vii:t t ; comp. Ezra i-vi with Neh. ii-vi). (It) Violence and strife go about on the walls of a city, when they are openly practiced, even by those whose especial duty it is to defend and protect men (Ps. lv :to).