'Build' in the Bible
‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I will relent concerning the calamity that I have inflicted on you.
Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.
who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.’
You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the Lord.
Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives.
Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.
I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
They will live in it securely; and they will build houses, plant vineyards and live securely when I execute judgments upon all who scorn them round about them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”’”
“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.
“Though you build high like the eagle,Though you set your nest among the stars,From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.
Who build Zion with bloodshedAnd Jerusalem with violent injustice.
“Moreover, their wealth will become plunderAnd their houses desolate;Yes, they will build houses but not inhabit them,And plant vineyards but not drink their wine.”
Then he said to me, “To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”
Then say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the Lord.
Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the Lord, and He who will bear the honor and sit and rule on His throne. Thus, He will be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices.”’
Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the Lord.” Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. And it will take place if you completely obey the Lord your God.
Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the wicked territory, and the people toward whom the Lord is indignant forever.”
I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.
So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.
Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
‘Heaven is My throne,And earth is the footstool of My feet;What kind of house will you build for Me?’ says the Lord,‘Or what place is there for My repose?
And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation;
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.
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