Quotes about Square
So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
— Nehemiah 8:3
It sharpened, it refined them, the yellow-blue evening light; and on the leaves in the square shone lurid, livid - they looked as if dipped in sea water - the foliage of a submerged city.
— Virginia Woolf
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
— Philip Yancey
At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
— Nehemiah 8:1
It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
— Exodus 28:16
and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
— Genesis 19:2
It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.
— Exodus 30:2
“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
— Exodus 27:1
The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
— Ezekiel 43:17
So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
— Esther 6:11
The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”
— Proverbs 26:13
So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.
— Ezra 10:9