Jeremiah 22:14
Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
2 Samuel 7:2
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.
Isaiah 5:8-9
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
2 Chronicles 3:5
And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
Proverbs 17:19
The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
Proverbs 24:27
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
Song of Songs 1:17
Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
Isaiah 9:9
And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,
Daniel 4:30
The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
Malachi 1:4
Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
Luke 14:28-29
For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?