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LADDER.—In ancient times ladders were used chiefly for scaling the walls of a besieged city, as frequently shown on the Egyptian and Assyrian monuments (Wilkinson, Anc. Egyp. i. 243; Layard, Nineveh, ii. 372). Although this use of them is probably implied in Pro_21:22, scaling-ladders are first expressly mentioned in the time of the Maccabees (1Ma_5:30). See Fortification, §§ 3, 6.
Jacob’s ‘ladder’ (Gen_28:12) seems to have been rather a ‘flight of stone steps, rising up to heaven’ (Driver, Com. in loc.).
A. R. S. Kennedy.