Meaning of “fence”

1. Fence — (Heb. gader), Num. 22:24 (R.V.). Fences were constructions of unmortared stones, to protect gardens, vineyards, sheepfolds, etc. From various causes they were apt to bulge out and fall (Ps. 62:3). In Ps. 80:12, R.V. (see Isa. 5:5), the psalmist says, "Why hast thou broken down her fences?" Serpents delight to lurk in the crevices of such fences (Eccl. 10:8; comp. Amos 5:19).

2. Fenced cities — There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, so called, had walls, and were thus fenced. The fortifications consisted of one or two walls, on which were towers or parapets at regular intervals (2 Chr. 32:5; Jer. 31:38). Around ancient Jerusalem were three walls, on one of which were ninety towers, on the second fourteen, and on the third sixty. The tower of Hananeel, near the north-east corner of the city wall, is frequently referred to (Neh. 3:1; 12:39; Zech. 14:10). The gateways of such cities were also fortified (Neh. 2:8; 3:3, 6; Judg. 16:2, 3; 1 Sam. 23:7). The Hebrews found many fenced cities when they entered the Promised Land (Num. 13:28; 32:17, 34-42; Josh. 11:12, 13; Judg. 1:27-33), and we may estimate the strength of some of these cities from the fact that they were long held in possession by the Canaanites. The Jebusites, e.g., were enabled to hold possession of Jerusalem till the time of David (2 Sam. 5:6, 7; 1 Chr. 11:5). Several of the kings of Israel and Judah distinguished themselves as fortifiers or "builders" of cities.

3. Offence — (1.) An injury or wrong done to one (1 Sam. 25:31; Rom. 5:15). (2.) A stumbling-block or cause of temptation (Isa. 8:14; Matt. 16:23; 18:7). Greek skandalon, properly that at which one stumbles or takes offence. The "offence of the cross" (Gal. 5:11) is the offence the Jews took at the teaching that salvation was by the crucified One, and by him alone. Salvation by the cross was a stumbling-block to their national pride.

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1. Numbers Chapter 32 Verse 17 — But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

2. Numbers Chapter 32 Verse 36 — And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.

3. Deuteronomy Chapter 3 Verse 5 — All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

4. Deuteronomy Chapter 9 Verse 1 — Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

5. Deuteronomy Chapter 28 Verse 52 — And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

6. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 20 — And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.

7. Joshua Chapter 14 Verse 12 — Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

8. Joshua Chapter 19 Verse 35 — And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,

9. 1 Samuel Chapter 6 Verse 18 — And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

10. 2 Samuel Chapter 20 Verse 6 — And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

11. 2 Samuel Chapter 23 Verse 7 — But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

12. 2 Kings Chapter 3 Verse 19 — And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

13. 2 Kings Chapter 10 Verse 2 — Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armor;

14. 2 Kings Chapter 17 Verse 9 — And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

15. 2 Kings Chapter 18 Verse 8 — He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

16. 2 Kings Chapter 18 Verse 13 — Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

17. 2 Kings Chapter 19 Verse 25 — Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

18. 2 Chronicles Chapter 8 Verse 5 — Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

19. 2 Chronicles Chapter 11 Verse 10 — And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.

20. 2 Chronicles Chapter 11 Verse 23 — And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

21. 2 Chronicles Chapter 12 Verse 4 — And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

22. 2 Chronicles Chapter 14 Verse 6 — And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.

23. 2 Chronicles Chapter 17 Verse 2 — And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

24. 2 Chronicles Chapter 17 Verse 19 — These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

25. 2 Chronicles Chapter 19 Verse 5 — And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

26. 2 Chronicles Chapter 21 Verse 3 — And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.

27. 2 Chronicles Chapter 32 Verse 1 — After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

28. 2 Chronicles Chapter 33 Verse 14 — Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

29. Job Chapter 10 Verse 11 — Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

30. Job Chapter 19 Verse 8 — He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

31. Job Chapter 22 Verse 25 — Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

32. Psalms Chapter 7 Verse 10 — My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

33. Psalms Chapter 31 Verse 2 — Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

34. Psalms Chapter 59 Verse 9 — Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

35. Psalms Chapter 59 Verse 16 — But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

36. Psalms Chapter 59 Verse 17 — Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

37. Psalms Chapter 62 Verse 2 — He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

38. Psalms Chapter 62 Verse 3 — How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

39. Psalms Chapter 62 Verse 6 — He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

40. Psalms Chapter 89 Verse 18 — For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

41. Psalms Chapter 94 Verse 22 — But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

42. Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 Verse 12 — For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

43. Ecclesiastes Chapter 10 Verse 4 — If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

44. Isaiah Chapter 2 Verse 15 — And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

45. Isaiah Chapter 4 Verse 5 — And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

46. Isaiah Chapter 5 Verse 2 — And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

47. Isaiah Chapter 8 Verse 14 — And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

48. Isaiah Chapter 19 Verse 6 — And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

49. Isaiah Chapter 25 Verse 2 — For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

50. Isaiah Chapter 27 Verse 10 — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

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