Genesis 11:3

The Tower Of Babylon

² It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. ³ They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. ⁴ They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

Let Us

Genesis 14:10

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Exodus 2:3

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

Genesis 11:4

They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

Genesis 11:7

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

Exodus 5:7-18

"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

2 Samuel 12:31

He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

Isaiah 9:10

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

Isaiah 41:6-7

Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!"

Isaiah 65:3

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

Nahum 3:14

Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

Hebrews 3:13

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 10:24

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.