House

Stone

• Leviticus 14:40–45

  Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house. …

• Isaiah 9:10

  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

• Amos 5:11

  Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

Brick

• Genesis 11:3

  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

• Exodus 1:11–14

  Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: …

• Isaiah 9:10

  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Wood

• Song of Solomon 1:17

  The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

• Isaiah 9:10

  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Foundations of stone

• 1 Kings 5:17

  And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

• 1 Kings 7:9

  All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

• Ezra 6:3

  In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

• Jeremiah 51:26

  And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

Figurative

• Psalms 87:1

  A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

• Isaiah 28:16

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

• Isaiah 48:13

  Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

• Romans 15:20

  Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

• 1 Corinthians 3:11

  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

• Ephesians 2:20

  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

• 1 Timothy 6:19

  Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

• Hebrews 6:1

  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

• Revelation 21:14

  And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Cornerstone

• Job 38:6

  Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

• Psalms 144:12

  That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Figurative

• Psalms 118:22

  The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

• Isaiah 28:16

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

• Ephesians 2:20

  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

• 1 Peter 2:6

  Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

Porches

• Judges 3:23

  Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

• 1 Kings 7:6

  And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

• 1 Kings 7:7

  Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

Courts

• Esther 1:5

  And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;

Summer apartment

• Judges 3:20

  And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

• Amos 3:15

  And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

• 1 Kings 17:19

  And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

Inner chamber

• 1 Kings 22:25

  And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

Chambers

• Genesis 43:30

  And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

• 2 Samuel 18:33

  And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

• 2 Kings 1:2

  And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

• 2 Kings 4:10

  Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

• Acts 1:13

  And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

• Acts 9:37

  And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

• Acts 20:8

  And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

Guest chamber

• Mark 14:14

  And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?

Pillars

• Proverbs 9:1

  Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

With courts

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

Lattice

• Judges 5:28

  The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Windows

• Judges 5:28

  The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

• Proverbs 7:6

  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

Ceiled and plastered

• Daniel 5:5

  In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Hinges

• Proverbs 26:14

  As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

Roofs, flat

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

• Judges 16:27

  Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

• 1 Samuel 9:25

  And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.

• 2 Samuel 11:2

  And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

• 2 Samuel 16:22

  So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

• Isaiah 15:3

  In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

• Isaiah 22:1

  The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

• Matthew 24:17

  Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

• Luke 12:3

  Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Battlements required in Mosaic law

• Deuteronomy 22:8

  When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

Prayer on

• Acts 10:9

  On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

Altars on

• 2 Kings 23:12

  And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

• Jeremiah 19:13

  And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

• Jeremiah 32:29

  And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

• Zephaniah 1:5

  And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

Booths on

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

Used as place to sleep

• Joshua 2:8

  And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

• Acts 10:9

  On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

Used as dwelling place

• Proverbs 21:9

  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

• Proverbs 25:24

  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

Painted

• Jeremiah 22:14

  That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

• Ezekiel 8:10

  So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

• Ezekiel 8:12

  Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

Chimneys of

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Texts of Scripture on doorposts of

• Deuteronomy 6:9

  And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Laws regarding sale of

• Leviticus 25:29–33

  And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. …

• Nehemiah 5:3

  Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

Dedicated

• Deuteronomy 20:5

  And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

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