Thematic Bible: Of houses


Thematic Bible



The officers should speak to the army: If you have built a new house that has not been dedicated, you may go home. Otherwise, you might die in battle, and someone else will dedicate it.


I will not join in their secret talks. I will not take part in their meetings. They killed people in anger. They crippled bulls for sport.

Then he took me to the entrance of the courtyard. As I looked, I saw a hole in the wall.

Dig a hole through the wall of your house, as they watch, and leave through it.


The words of the wise are like prodding goads, and like nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. They are given from one shepherd.

I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place. He will become a glorious throne to his father's house.


In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote above the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.'


He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall,


Saul balanced the spear in his hand and said: I will give David a blow! I will pin him to the wall. David got away from him twice.


He ate by the wall, just as he always did. Jonathan sat across from him. Abner sat next to him. But David's place was empty.


Like a man who ran from a lion, and a bear met him! So he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.