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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)
Bacchides returned to Jerusalem. Then he began to build fortified cities in Judea - the strongholds of Jericho, Emmaus, Beth-horon, Bethel, Timnath, Pharathon and Tephon - with high walls and barred gates, (1 Maccabees 9, 50)
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)
Ptolemy, son of Abubos, had become general in command of the plain of Jericho. He had much silver and gold, (1 Maccabees 16, 11)
Simon was then making the rounds of the cities of Judea and attending to their administration. In the eleventh month called Shebat, in the year one hundred and seventy-seven (134 B.C.), Simon came to Jericho with his two sons, Mattathias and Judas. (1 Maccabees 16, 14)
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)
The men of Judas called on the great Sovereign of the world who had demolished the walls of Jericho without engines of war during the time of Joshua, and then rushed furiously upon the walls. (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
The rich man's wealth is his fortress; he relies on it as on a high wall. (Proverbs 18, 11)