Reference: Building
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among the Jews was suited to the climate and conditions of the country. They probably adopted the kind of architecture for their dwellings which they found already existing when they entered Canaan (De 6:10; Nu 13:19). Phoenician artists (2Sa 5:11; 1Ki 5:6,18) assisted at the erection of the royal palace and the temple at Jerusalem. Foreigners also assisted at the restoration of the temple after the Exile (Ezr 3:7).
In Ge 11:3,9, we have the first recorded instance of the erection of buildings. The cities of the plain of Shinar were founded by the descendants of Shem (Ge 10:11-12,22).
The Israelites were by occupation shepherds and dwellers in tents (Ge 47:3); but from the time of their entering Canaan they became dwellers in towns, and in houses built of the native limestone of Palestine. Much building was carried on in Solomon's time. Besides the buildings he completed at Jerusalem, he also built Baalath and Tadmor (1Ki 9:15,24). Many of the kings of Israel and Judah were engaged in erecting various buildings.
Herod and his sons and successors restored the temple, and built fortifications and other structures of great magnificence in Jerusalem (Lu 21:5).
The instruments used in building are mentioned as the plumb-line (Am 7:7), the measuring-reed (Eze 40:3), and the saw (1Ki 7:9).
Believers are "God's building" (1Co 3:9); and heaven is called "a building of God" (2Co 5:1). Christ is the only foundation of his church (1Co 3:10-12), of which he also is the builder (Mt 16:18).
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From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
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.
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" So they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers."
"How is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they like open camps or with fortifications?
"Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,
Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and stonemasons; and they built a house for David.
All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
As soon as Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, then he built the Millo.
Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food, drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, according to the permission they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.
Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.
"I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
And while some were talking about the temple, that it was adorned with beautiful stones and votive gifts, He said,
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. read more. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.