Psalms 122:3
Jerusalem is built up as a city united together,
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ASV
Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together;
KJV
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together. In David's time the upper and lower city were joined together, the streets regularly built, the houses contiguous, not straggling about, here and there one (c).
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together. David saw in vision the city built; no more a waste, or a mere collection of tents, or a city upon paper, commenced but not completed. God's mercy to the Israelitish nation allowed of peace and plenty, sufficient for the uprise and perfecting of its capital: that City flourished in happy times, even as the church is only built up when all the people of God are prospering. Thanks be to God, Jerusalem is builded: the Lord by his glorious appearing has built up Zion.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Nehemiah 4:6So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
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For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Psalms 147:2The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.
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Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,