Deuteronomy Chapter 3 verse 5 Holy Bible
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
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All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.
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All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many.
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All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
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All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number.
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All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
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All these `are' cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; literally, double gates and a bar. These cities, with their marvelous erections, are believed to be still existing in the Hauran. Over that district tire strewn a multitude of towns of various sizes, all constructed after the same remarkable fashion. "The streets are perfect, the walls perfect, and, what seems more astonish. tug, the stone doors are still hanging on their hinges, so little impression has been made during these many centuries on the hard and durable stone of which they are built" (Graham, Cambridge Essays, p. 160). These doors are "formed of slabs of stone, opening on pivots which are projecting parts of the stone itself, and working in sockets in the lintel and threshold." Some of these gates are large enough to admit of a camel passing through them, and the doors are of proportionate dimensions, some of the stones of which they are formed being eighteen inches in thickness. The roofs also are formed of huge stone slabs resting on the massive walls. All betoken the workmanship of a race endowed with powers far exceeding those of ordinary men; and give credibility to the supposition that we have in them the dwellings of the giant race that occupied that district before it was invaded by the Israelites. "We could not help," says Mr. Graham, "being impressed with the belief that had we never known anything of the early portion of Scripture history before visiting this country, we should have been forced to the conclusion that its original inhabitants, the people who had constructed those cities, were not only a powerful and mighty nation, but individuals of greater strength than ourselves." Ver. 6. - (See Deuteronomy 2:34.)
