He has blocked ¹  my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness ²  over my paths.

He built up the city around it, from the terrace to the surrounding walls; ¹  Joab restored the rest of the city.

They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; ¹  they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. ² 

He has blocked ¹  every road I take ²  with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ³ 

Let’s make a small private upper room ¹  and furnish it with ²  a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

He said to the people of Judah: ¹  “Let’s build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. ²  The land remains ours because we have followed ³  the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides.” ⁴  So they built the cities ⁵  and prospered.

He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ¹  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ² 

This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: ¹  Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. ² 

We inquired of those elders, asking them, ‘Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?’

Adjacent to him Ezer son of Jeshua, head of Mizpah, worked on another section, opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.

Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. ¹  No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares. ² 

as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

“In that day I will rebuild the collapsing hut ¹  of David. I will seal its ²  gaps, repair its ³  ruins, and restore it to what it was like in days gone by. ⁴ 

Into his right hand ¹  comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal ²  for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, ³  to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, ¹  and the sides ²  of the entrance were 8¾ feet ³  on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, ⁴  and its width as 35 feet. ⁵ 

There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees. ¹ 

In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. ¹ 

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three. ¹ 

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from the watchtower to the city fortress. ¹