Behold, when we come into the land, thou shall have bound this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by, and thou shall have brought thy father and thy mother and thy brethren and all thy father's household home unto thee.

And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

And all the doors and posts were square, with some windows opposite the other windows in three orders.

He made two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece, and a line of twelve cubits did compass each of them about.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a beautiful inheritance.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,

He cast out the Gentiles also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their habitations.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

The carpenter stretches out his rule; he measures it with a line; he fits it with planes; he marks it out with the compass; he makes it after the form of a noble man, in the likeness of the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

And the measuring line shall extend before him upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath.

And he brought me there, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

Then he came unto the gate which looks toward the east and went up the stairs thereof and measured the post of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other post of the gate, which was one reed broad.

And when the man went forth eastward, he had a line in his hand, and he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by lots; and thou shalt die in a polluted land; and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.

Therefore thus hath the LORD said, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in her, saith the LORD of the hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their fame went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

For it is not he that commends himself that is approved, but whom the Lord commends.