Thematic Bible: Built


Thematic Bible



There was a time when the entire earth spoke a common language with an identical vocabulary. As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there. They told each other, "Come on! Let's burn bricks thoroughly." They used bricks for stone and tar for mortar. read more.
Then they said, "Come on! Let's build ourselves a city and a tower, with its summit in the heavens, and let's make a name for ourselves so we won't be scattered over the surface of the whole earth." However, the LORD descended to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building. The LORD said, "Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them! Come on! Let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they won't understand each other's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city. Therefore it was called Babylon, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them over the surface of the entire earth.

Then he made the altar for burnt offerings of acacia wood. It was a square, five cubits long and five cubits wide, and it was three cubits high. He made horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze. He made all the utensils for the altar the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the forks, and the fire-pans and he made all its utensils of bronze. read more.
He made a lattice, a netting of bronze, for the altar. It was under its ledge, extending halfway up. He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze lattice as holders for the poles. He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze. And he put the poles through rings on the sides of the altar to carry it. He made it hollow, out of boards.

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of Temple Furniture

Moses told the Israelis, "Look, the LORD has called Uri's son Bezalel, grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah, and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge of all kinds of work, to make artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, read more.
to cut stones for setting, to carve wood, and to engage in all kinds of artistic work. And he has given both him and Ahisamach's son Oholiab from the tribe of Dan the ability to teach. He has equipped them to do all kinds of work done by an engraver, designer, embroider in blue, purple and scarlet material and in fine linen, or as a weaver. They were able to do all kinds of work and were skilled designers.

"Look, I've called Uri's son Bezalel, grandson of Hur from Judah's tribe Verse ConceptsGod Appointing OthersPeople Of JudahIdentitygrandfatherscraftsmanship

Bezalel and Oholiab and all the skilled craftsmen to whom the LORD gave wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work in constructing the sanctuary are to do everything that the LORD has commanded." Verse ConceptsBuildingSanctuaryWisdom, Human NatureSkilled Peopleartistscraftsmanship

Now Uri's son Bezalel, grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had ordered Moses to build. Verse ConceptsMaking The TabernaclePeople Of Judah


They got up, forced Jesus out of the city, and led him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off. Verse ConceptsRejection Of ChristPersecution Of ChristThrowing PeopleDriving Out ChristPeople Getting Upjumping

This calls for a mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is sitting. They are also seven kings. Verse ConceptsBabylonMind, The HumanWisdom, Human NatureSeven ThingsFalse Religious System

Then he rebuilt Tadmor in the desert, along with supply centers that he had built in Hamath.

He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water. There he settled the hungry, where they built a city to live in.

Your servants take pleasure in its stones and delight in its debris.

They will plunder your riches and loot your businesses. They'll tear down your walls and demolish your luxurious homes. They'll grab the stones, wood, and rubble from the destruction and dump it all into the Mediterranean Sea. Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Stones RejectedDrawbacks To RichesWood And Stone

As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there. Verse ConceptsFacing EastLiving In The Land

So Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the plain, setting up his tent in the vicinity of Sodom. Verse ConceptsTents

DATE: First year of Cyrus the King FROM: King Cyrus SUBJECT: The Temple of God in Jerusalem Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreadthProclamationsThe Second TempleDimensions Of BuildingsThe First Temple

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the lamb were written on them. Verse ConceptsFoundationsThe Number TwelveFoundations Of NationsWalled TownsTwelve DisciplesTwelve ThingsNew Jerusalem

The men who lived in the city addressed Elisha. "Look now," they said, "our city's location is good, as you have been observing, but the water springs here are bad and the land isn't sustaining crops." Verse ConceptsBad WaterFamily ProblemsBitterness

Beautifully situated, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion towards the north, the city of the great King. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfBeautifulBeauty Of JerusalemBeauty Of NatureThe Beauty Of Naturezion

making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them. Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

So the Egyptians placed supervisors over them, oppressing them with heavy burdens. The Israelis built the supply cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour


Look! There is a river whose streams make the city of God rejoice, even the Holy Place of the Most High. Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemHoly Spirit, Types OfRiverspotential

The city was cubic in shape: its length was the same as its width. He measured the city with his rod, and it measured at 12,000 stadia:Its length, width, and height were the same. Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthSquaresCubesEleven To Nineteen ThousandCity SquaresMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandNew JerusalemNervousnessoutreachmeasurement

They told each other, "Come on! Let's burn bricks thoroughly." They used bricks for stone and tar for mortar. Verse ConceptsBricksequipping, physicalBakingBuilding

Jerusalem stands built up, a city knitted together. Verse ConceptsNations Unitedreuniting

Jehoshaphat had ocean-going vessels from Tarshish sail to Ophir for gold, but they never made it because they were shipwrecked at Ezion-geber. Verse ConceptsGoldMerchantsSeafaringSuffering, Causes OfTradeThe NavyCommerceShips For TradingTrade With Metalssailing

Sometime later, King Jehoshaphat of Judah entered into a military alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel, acting wickedly by doing so. He also agreed with King Ahaziah to build ships to sail toward Tarshish, which they built in Ezion-geber.

King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Reed Sea in the land of Edom. Verse ConceptsThe NavyAccumulatingOther References To The Red Sea

After this, Solomon visited Ezion-geber and Elath at the seashore in the land of Edom.

So God announced to Noah, "I've decided to destroy every living thing on earth, because it has become filled with violence due to them. Look! I'm about to annihilate them, along with the earth. So make yourself an ark out of cedar, constructing compartments in it, and cover it inside and out with tar. Make the ark like this: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. read more.
Make a roof for the ark, and finish the walls to within one cubit from the top. Place the entrance in the side of the ark, and build a lower, a middle, and an upper deck. "For my part, I'm about to flood the earth with water and destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die. However, I will establish my own covenant with you, and you are to enter the ark you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives. You are to bring two of every living thing into the ark so they may remain alive with you. They are to be male and female. From birds according to their species, from domestic animals according to their species, and from everything that crawls on the ground according to their species two of everything will come to you so they may remain alive. For your part, take some of the edible food and store it away these stores will be food for you and the animals." Noah did all of this, precisely as God had commanded.

Now after the population of human beings had increased throughout the earth, and daughters had been born to them, Verse ConceptsPeople MultiplyingPeople BeginningBuilding Relationships

The Nephilim were on the earth at that time (and also immediately afterward), when those divine beings were having sexual relations with those human women, who gave birth to children for them. These children became the heroes and legendary figures of ancient times. Verse ConceptsGiantsAntediluviansBefore The FloodWarriorsMarital SexAngels As Sons Of GodMarital Sex BetweenAngels Interacting With PeoplePeople Have HonourInterracial MarriageSame Sex Marriageheroes

"They brought in a ship made with pine planking from Senir, configured with a mast carved from a cedar from Lebanon, Verse ConceptsCedarFir TreesBoardsCedar Wood

which sends envoys by the sea, in papyrus boats over the water! Go, swift messengers, to a tall, smooth-skinned nation, to a people feared far and wide, a nation that metes out punishment and oppresses, whose land the rivers divide. Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

Make the ark like this: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthBroadnessDimensions Of Other Thingsmathstructuremeasurement

So Solomon began construction of the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, that is, where David had prepared Ornan the Jebusite's threshing floor. Verse ConceptsCalvaryBeginningJerusalem, Significance OfKingsMountainsSolomon, Life OfThreshing FloorSolomon's TempleStarting To BuildThe First Temple


From that time on, after David had observed that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made his sacrifices there. Meanwhile, the tent of the LORD that Moses had crafted in the desert, along with the altar of burnt offerings, were being stored at the high place in Gibeon at that time, but David was not going before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword carried by the angel of the LORD.

and he rebuilt Baalath and its supply centers that belonged to Solomon, along with all the cities that he utilized to garrison his chariots and cavalry forces. Solomon was pleased also to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in every territory that he controlled. Verse ConceptsFortificationsCavalry

So the Egyptians placed supervisors over them, oppressing them with heavy burdens. The Israelis built the supply cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

along with the storage cities that Solomon used for his chariots and for his cavalry, everything that Solomon felt like building in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in every territory under his control. Verse ConceptsHorsesStoringStores Of Food

Then he rebuilt Tadmor in the desert, along with supply centers that he had built in Hamath.

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