so that the wall enclosed a square 840 feet on each side. The wall served to separate what was holy from what was not.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, now and forever.

A day is coming when the people will sing this song in the land of Judah: Our city is strong! God himself defends its walls!

The sounds of violence will be heard no more; Destruction will not shatter your country again. I will protect and defend you like a wall; You will praise me because I have saved you.

The LORD has promised that he himself will be a wall of fire around the city to protect it and that he will live there in all his glory."

It had a great, high wall with twelve gates and with twelve angels in charge of the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the people of Israel.

(King Og was the last of the Rephaim. His coffin, made of stone, was six feet wide and almost fourteen feet long, according to standard measurements. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

so that the wall enclosed a square 840 feet on each side. The wall served to separate what was holy from what was not.