16 Bible Verses about Houses Under Attack

The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.

And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.

The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;

He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.

And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields.

And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.

When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage, Then let the owner of the house come and say to the priest, It seems to me that there is a sort of leper's disease in the house. And the priest will give orders for everything to be taken out of the house, before he goes in to see the disease, so that the things in the house may not become unclean; and then the priest is to go in to see the house;read more.
And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall; Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days: And the priest is to come again on the seventh day and have a look and see if the marks on the walls of the house are increased in size; Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town: And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town: And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house. And if the disease comes out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and after the walls have been rubbed and the new paste put on, Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean. And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town. And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening. And anyone who has been sleeping in the house will have to have his clothing washed; and anyone who takes food in that house will have to have his clothing washed. And if the priest comes in, and sees that the disease is not increased after the new paste has been put on the house, then the priest will say that the house is clean, because the disease is gone. And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop; And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water; And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times. And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread. But he will let the living bird go out of the town into the open country; so he will take away sin from the house and it will be clean. This is the law for all signs of the leper's disease and for skin diseases; And for signs of disease in clothing, or in a house; And for a growth or a bad place or a bright mark on the skin; To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper.

And for signs of disease in clothing, or in a house;

For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.

And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.