Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Slime
Bible References
Brick
Exodus 1:14
and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.
Exodus 5:7
“Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.
2 Samuel 12:31
He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks have fallen,
but we will rebuild with cut stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
but we will rebuild with cut stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
Isaiah 65:3 These people continually provoke Me
to My face,
sacrificing in gardens,
burning incense on bricks,
to My face,
sacrificing in gardens,
burning incense on bricks,
Nahum 3:14 Draw water for the siege;
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!
Slime
Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains.
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.