13 Bible Verses about Bricks
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They said to each other: Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said: Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick.
Take some large stones, and bury them under the brick pavement at the entrance to the Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes. Do this while the people of Judah watch you.
The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with cut stones. The fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.
Draw (pump) water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the clay pits and trample the clay! Grab hold of the brick mold!
They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work.
He removed the crown of their god Milcom from off the head of their king. The crown was made of seventy-five pounds of gold. There was a valuable jewel on it. David put the jewel on his own crown. He also carried off everything else of value. David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw. Insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They are lazy! That is why they are crying: Let us go offer sacrifices to our God. Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies.read more.
The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it. You must still make the same number of bricks. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw. The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw. The bosses beat the men in charge of the slaves and said: Why did you not force the slaves to make as many bricks yesterday and today as they did before? Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: Why are you treating us like this? No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame. The king replied: You are lazy. You are just lazy! That is why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to Jehovah. Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks. The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told: Do not make fewer bricks each day than you are supposed to.
They said to each other: Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.
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.'
The people would gather it and then grind it in a hand mill or crush it in a mortar. They would cook it in a pot or make round loaves of bread out of it. It tasted like rich sweet pastry made with oil.
