Genesis 11:3

The Tower Of Babylon

² And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. ³ They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. ⁴ Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth."

Let Us

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

Exodus 2:3

When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth."

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."

Exodus 5:7-18

"You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see them?"

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Isaiah 9:10

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

Isaiah 41:6-7

Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!"

Isaiah 65:3

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"--

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.