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Battlement. Among the Jews, a battlement was required, by law, to be built upon every house. It consisted of a low wall built around the roofs of the houses to prevent persons from falling off, and sometimes serving as a partition from another building. Deuteronomy 22:8; Jeremiah 5:10.

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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Battlement'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​b/battlement.html. 1901.
 
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