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
making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.
Exodus 5:7
"You're no longer to give the people straw for making bricks, as in the past. They must gather straw for themselves.
2 Samuel 12:31
brought back the people who had lived in it, placing them under conscripted labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. He did this to every Ammonite city, and then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 9:10
"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamore trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.'
Isaiah 65:3
a people who continually provoke me to my face; they keep sacrificing in gardens and waving their hands over stone altars;
Nahum 3:14
"Draw water, because a siege is coming! Strengthen your fortresses! Make the clay good and strong! Mix the mortar! Go get your brick molds!
Slime
Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, so when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of their people fell into them, while the rest fled to the hill country.
Exodus 2:3
But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus container, coated it with asphalt and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.