House

How Nave’s arranged it

• Built of
• StoneLeviticus 14:40–45Isaiah 9:10Amos 5:11
• BrickGenesis 11:3Exodus 1:11–14Isaiah 9:10
• Wood So 1:17Isaiah 9:10
• Built into city wallsJoshua 2:15
• Used for worshipActs 1:13Acts 1:14Acts 12:12Romans 16:51 Corinthians 16:19Colossians 4:15Philemon 1:2
• A man's castleDeuteronomy 24:10Deuteronomy 24:11
• ARCHITECTURE OF
• Foundations of stone1 Kings 5:171 Kings 7:9Ezra 6:3Jeremiah 51:26
• FigurativePsalms 87:1Isaiah 28:16Isaiah 48:13Romans 15:201 Corinthians 3:11Ephesians 2:201 Timothy 6:19Hebrews 6:1Revelation 21:14
• CornerstoneJob 38:6Psalms 144:12
• FigurativePsalms 118:22Isaiah 28:16Ephesians 2:201 Peter 2:6

The passages, in Bible order (87)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 11:3

   And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 11:31 voice

   “Let us make brick - It appears they were obliged to make use of brick, as there was an utter scarcity of stones in that district; and on the same account they were obliged to use slime, that is, bitumen, (Vulg). ασφαλτος, (Septuagint) for mortar: so it appears they had neither common stone nor lime-stone; hence they had brick for stone, and asphaltus or bitumen instead of mortar.

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2. Genesis 43:30

   Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

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3. Exodus 1:11–14

   So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 1:11–142 voices

   “Pithom (Greek, Patumos), lay on the eastern Pelusiac branch of the Nile, about twelve Roman miles from Heliopolis; and Raamses, called by the Septuagint Heroopolis, lay between the same branch of the Nile and the Bitter Lakes.

   “Taskmasters - The Egyptian “Chiefs of tributes.” They were men of rank, superintendents of the public works, such as are often represented on Egyptian monuments, and carefully distinguished from the subordinate overseers. The Israelites were employed in forced labor, probably in detachments, but they were not reduced to slavery, properly speaking, nor treated as captives of war. Amosis had special need of such laborers, as proved by the inscriptions. Treasure cities - “Magazines,” depots of ammunition and provisions 1Ki 9:19; 2Ch 8:4; 2Ch 32:

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4. Leviticus 14:40–45

   he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 14:40–451 voice

   “The words, "I put the leprosy," has led many to think that this plague was a judicial infliction from heaven for the sins of the owner; while others do not regard it in this light, it being common in Scripture to represent God as doing that which He only permits in His providence to be done.

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5. Leviticus 25:29–33

   If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 25:29–331 voice

   “Sell a dwelling house in a walled city - A very proper difference is put between houses in a city and houses in the country. If a man sold his house in the city, he might redeem it any time in the course of a year; but if it were not redeemed within that time, it could no more be redeemed, nor did it go out even in the jubilee.

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6. Deuteronomy 6:9

   Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:91 voice

   “Christ blames the Pharisees, not for wearing them, but for affecting to have them broader than other people's, Matt. xxiii. But when Bibles came to be common among them there was less occasion for this expedient.

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7. Deuteronomy 20:5

   Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 20:52 voices

   “Again, the law in its humanity says that if a man has built a new house but has not yet moved in, or laid out a new vineyard but has not yet enjoyed the fruit, or become betrothed to a girl but has not yet married her, he is to be excused military service. This makes military sense, since we would be unenthusiastic in our military service if we were being pulled in the direction of the things we longed for. People expose themselves to danger without a second thought only if they are free in relation to natural impulses.

   “The officers dedicated it - See Exo 5:6 note. Compare the marginal references. The expression is appropriate, because various ceremonies of a religious kind were customary among the Jews on taking possession of a new house. The immunity conferred in this verse lasted, like that in Deu 20:7 (compare Deu 24:5), for one year.

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8. Deuteronomy 22:8

   If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:82 voices

   “When you build a house, you do not quit before building the protective parapet of the house. It is this parapet that prevents one who has ascended onto the house from falling. So it is with the house of the Word. Consequently those who fall because of unfinished buildings fall only from houses which lack the parapet. Those architects and builders bear the blame for such slaughters and falls.

   “When thou buildest a new house,.... Which is to be understood of a house to dwell in, not of a granary, barn, or stable, or such like, and every house that is not four cubits square, as Maimonides observes (f): then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof; in the Talmud (g) it is asked, what is the meaning of, or why is it said, "thy roof?" to except synagogues and schools; the gloss upon which is, synagogues, &c. do not belong to any single person, and besides are no dwelling place.

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9. Deuteronomy 24:10

   When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:101 voice

   “The borrower (says Solomon) is servant to the lender; therefore lest the lender should abuse the advantage he has against him, and improve it for his own interest, it is provided that he shall take not what he pleases, but what the borrower can best spare. A man's house is his castle, even the poor man's house is so, and is here taken under the protection of the law.

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10. Deuteronomy 24:11

    You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:111 voice

    “The borrower (says Solomon) is servant to the lender; therefore lest the lender should abuse the advantage he has against him, and improve it for his own interest, it is provided that he shall take not what he pleases, but what the borrower can best spare. A man's house is his castle, even the poor man's house is so, and is here taken under the protection of the law.

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11. Joshua 2:6

    (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)

    ›Commentary on Joshua 2:61 voice

    “Hid then with the stalks of flax - It is a matter of little consequence whether we translate פסתי העיץ pistey haets stalks of flax, or stalks of hemp: the word עץ ets, which signifies wood, serves to show that whether it was hemp or flax, it was in its rough, unmanufactured state; and as this was about the season, viz., the end of March or the beginning of April, in which the flax is ripe in that country, consequently Rahab’s flax might have been recently pulled, and was now drying on the roof of her house.

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12. Joshua 2:8

    Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

    ›Commentary on Joshua 2:81 voice

    “And before they were laid down,.... Under the stalks of the flax; or rather, since they are said to be hid in them, before they were fallen asleep, so Kimchi and Abarbinel: she came up unto them upon the roof; to acquaint them how things were, and to converse with them on the following subjects.

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13. Joshua 2:15

    Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.

    ›Commentary on Joshua 2:151 voice

    “Upon the town wall - The town wall probably formed the back wall of the house, and the window opened therefore into the country. (Compare Paul’s escape, 2Co 11:33).

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14. Judges 3:20

    Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

    ›Commentary on Judges 3:201 voice

    “He was sitting in a summer parlor - Besides the platforms, says Dr. Shaw, which were upon the ancient houses of the East, and which are found there to this day, it is probable that heretofore, as well as at present, most of the great houses had a smaller one annexed, which seldom consisted of more than one or two rooms and a terrace. Others, built as they frequently are above the porch or gateway, have, if we except the ground-floor, all the conveniences belonging to the house, properly so called.

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15. Judges 3:23

    Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

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16. Judges 5:28

    Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’

    ›Commentary on Judges 5:282 voices

    “In these verses a sudden transition is made to the mother of the Canaanite general, and a striking picture is drawn of a mind agitated between hope and fear--impatient of delay, yet anticipating the news of victory and the rewards of rich booty. the lattice--a lattice window, common to the houses in warm countries for the circulation of air.

    “Cried through the lattice - This is very natural: in the women’s apartments in the East the windows are latticed, to prevent them from sending or receiving letters, etc. The latticing is the effect of the jealousy which universally prevails in those countries. Why is his chariot so long in coming? - Literally, Why is his chariot ashamed to come?

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