Houses
Antiquity of -- Ge 12:1; 19:3. Deep and solid foundations required for -- Mt 7:24; Lu 6:48. Sometimes built without foundation -- Mt 7:26; Lu 6:49. Built of Clay. -- Job 4:19. Bricks. -- Ex 1:11-14; Isa 9:10. Stone and wood. -- Le 14:40,42; Hab 2:11. Hewn or cut stone. -- Isa 3:10; Am 5:11. In cities, built in streets -- Ge 19:2; Jos 2:19. Often built on city walls -- Jos 2:15; 2Co 11:33. The flat roofs of Surrounded with battlements. -- De 22:8. Had often booths on them. -- 2Sa 16:22; Ne 8:16; Pr 2:19. Had often idolatrous altars on them. -- 2Ki 23:12; Jer 19:13; Zep 1:5. Used for drying flax. -- Jos 2:6. Used for exercise. -- 2Sa 11:2; Da 4:29. Used for devotion. -- Ac 10:9. Used for making proclamations. -- Lu 12:3. Used for secret conference. -- 1Sa 9:25,26. Resorted to in grief. -- Isa 15:3; Jer 48:38. Often covered with week grass. -- Ps 129:6,7. Accessible from the outside -- Mt 24:17. The courts of, large and used as apartments -- Es 1:5; Lu 5:19. Entered by a gate or door -- Ge 43:19; Ex 12:22; Lu 16:20; Ac 10:17. Doors of, low and small for safety -- Pr 17:19. Doors of, how fastened -- 2Sa 13:18; Song 5:5; Lu 11:7. Admission to, gained by knocking at the door -- Ac 12:13; Re 3:20. Walls of, plastered -- Le 14:42,43. Serpents often lodged in walls of -- Am 5:19. Custom of fastening nails, & c, in walls of, alluded to -- Ec 12:11; Isa 22:23. Had often several stories -- Eze 41:16; Ac 20:9. Divided into apartments -- Ge 43:30; Isa 26:20. Apartments of, were often Large and airy. -- Jer 22:14. Ceiled and painted. -- Jer 22:14; Hag 1:4. Inlaid with ivory. -- 1Ki 22:39; Am 3:15. Hung with rich tapestries. -- Es 1:6. Warmed with fires. -- Jer 36:22; Joh 18:18. Upper apartments of, the best, and used for entertainments -- Mr 14:15. Had often detached apartments for secrecy and for strangers -- Jdj 3:20-23; 2Ki 4:10,11; 9:2,3. Lighted by windows -- 1Ki 7:4. Street windows of, high and dangerous -- 2Ki 1:2; 9:30,33; Ac 20:9. Of the rich Great. -- Isa 5:9; Am 6:11; 2Ti 2:20. Goodly. -- De 8:12. Pleasant. -- Eze 26:12; Mic 2:9. Of brick or clay Plastered. -- Eze 13:10,11. Easily broken through. -- Job 24:16; Eze 12:5. Often swept away by torrents. -- Eze 13:13,14. When finished were usually dedicated -- De 20:5; Ps 30:1. For summer residence -- Am 3:15. Liable to leprosy -- Le 14:34-53. Not to be coveted -- Ex 20:17; Mic 2:2. Were hired -- Ac 28:30. Were mortgaged -- Ne 5:3. Were sold -- Ac 4:34. Law respecting the sale of -- Le 25:29-33. Of criminals, desolated -- Da 2:5; 3:29. Desolation of, threatened as a punishment -- Isa 5:9; 13:16,21,22; Eze 16:41; 26:12. Often broken down to repair city walls before sieges -- Isa 22:10. Illustrative Of the body. -- Job 4:19; 2Co 5:1. Of the grave. -- Job 30:23. Of the church. -- Heb 3:6; 1Pe 2:5. Of saints' inheritance. -- Joh 14:2; 2Co 5:1. (On sand,) of the delusive hope of hypocrites. -- Mt 7:24,25. (On a rock,) of the hope of saints. -- Mt 7:24,25. (Insecurity of,) of earthly trust. -- Mt 6:19,20. (Building of,) of great prosperity. -- Isa 65:21; Eze 28:26. (Built and not inhabited,) of calamity. -- De 28:30; Am 5:11; Zep 1:13. (To inhabit those, built by others,) of abundant feelings. -- De 6:10,11.