Thematic Bible: Built


Thematic Bible



The entire world had one language and common words. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar (Babylon) and settled there. They said to each other: Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. read more.
Then they said: Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth. But Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. Jehovah said: If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this. Let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other. Jehovah scattered them from there over all the earth. They stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel (confusion) because Jehovah confused the language of the whole world. Jehovah scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth.

He made the altar for burnt offerings out of acacia wood seven and one half feet square and four and one half feet high. Then he placed a horn at each of its four corners. He made the four horns and the altar out of one piece of wood covered with copper. He also made all the equipment for the altar: the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the hooks, and the fire pans. All this equipment was made of copper. read more.
A copper grating was also made. It was placed under the rim of the altar, so that it reached halfway up the altar. A copper ring was attached beneath the ledge at the four corners to put the poles through. After that he covered two acacia wood poles with copper and put them through the rings for carrying the altar, which was shaped like an open box.

Bezalel made the ark out of acacia wood forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of Temple Furniture

Then Moses said to the sons of Israel: Jehovah has called by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur of the tribe of Judah. He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge and in all craftsmanship. He is a master artist familiar with gold, silver, and copper. read more.
He knows how to cut and set stones and how to work with wood. He is an expert in all trades. Jehovah also gave Bezalel and Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan the ability to teach others. Jehovah made these men highly skilled in all trades. They can do the work of jewelers, carpenters, and designers. They know how to embroider violet, purple and bright red yarn on fine linen. They know how to weave yarn on a loom. They can do all kinds of trades. They are master artists.

I have called Bezalel, son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. Verse ConceptsGod Appointing OthersPeople Of JudahIdentitygrandfatherscraftsmanship

Moses continued speaking: Bezalel and Oholiab will do the work as Jehovah commanded. They will do this with the help of every other craftsman to whom Jehovah has given the necessary skills and talents. They will know how to do all the work for constructing the holy place. Verse ConceptsBuildingSanctuaryWisdom, Human NatureSkilled Peopleartistscraftsmanship

Bezalel, son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah, made everything Jehovah commanded Moses. Verse ConceptsMaking The TabernaclePeople Of Judah


They rose up to drive him out of the city. They led him to the top of the hill where their city was built to throw him down the hill. Verse ConceptsRejection Of ChristPersecution Of ChristThrowing PeopleDriving Out ChristPeople Getting Upjumping

Here is where the mind that has wisdom comes in. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. Verse ConceptsBabylonMind, The HumanWisdom, Human NatureSeven ThingsFalse Religious System

He rebuilt Tadmor in the desert and built all the storage cities in Hamath.

He changes deserts into lakes (marshland) and dry ground into springs. There he settles those who are hungry, and they build cities to live in.

Your servants find pleasure in her stones and feel pity for her dust.

They will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. They will throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water.' Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Stones RejectedDrawbacks To RichesWood And Stone

As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar (Babylon) and settled there. Verse ConceptsFacing EastLiving In The Land

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. Verse ConceptsTents

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be constructed as the place where they make offerings. Let them brake ground for the foundation. Let it be 90 feet high and 90 feet wide, Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreadthProclamationsThe Second TempleDimensions Of BuildingsThe First Temple

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

Men from Jericho went to Elisha and said: You may know that this is a fine city but the water is bad and causes miscarriages. Verse ConceptsBad WaterFamily ProblemsBitterness

His situation if beautiful. Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth. The city of the great King is in the far reaches of the north. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfBeautifulBeauty Of JerusalemBeauty Of NatureThe Beauty Of Naturezion

They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work. Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour


There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High. Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemHoly Spirit, Types OfRiverspotential

And the city lies foursquare. The length is as large as the width. He measured the city with the reed, fourteen hundred miles. The length and the width and the height of it are equal. Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthSquaresCubesEleven To Nineteen ThousandCity SquaresMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandNew JerusalemNervousnessoutreachmeasurement

They said to each other: Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Verse ConceptsBricksequipping, physicalBakingBuilding

Jerusalem is built to be a city where the people are united. Verse ConceptsNations Unitedreuniting

King Jehoshaphat had ocean-going ships built to sail to the land of Ophir for gold. They were wrecked at Eziongeber and never sailed. Verse ConceptsGoldMerchantsSeafaringSuffering, Causes OfTradeThe NavyCommerceShips For TradingTrade With Metalssailing

After this, King Jehoshaphat of Judah allied himself with King Ahaziah of Israel, who led him to do evil. Jehoshaphat joined him in making ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.

King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Eziongeber. This is near Elath on the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the land of Edom. Verse ConceptsThe NavyAccumulatingOther References To The Red Sea

Then Solomon went to the coast near Ezion Geber and Elath in Edom.

God said to Noah: I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them with the earth. BUILD AN ARK of cypress wood (a resinous tree). Make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. read more.
Build a roof on it and finish the ark to within eighteen inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle, and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has the breath of life in it, everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you. You will enter the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. Bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. Take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them. Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.

Men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them. Verse ConceptsPeople MultiplyingPeople BeginningBuilding Relationships

The NEPHILIM were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God had sexual intercourse with the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. Verse ConceptsGiantsAntediluviansBefore The FloodWarriorsMarital SexAngels As Sons Of GodMarital Sex BetweenAngels Interacting With PeoplePeople Have HonourInterracial MarriageSame Sex Marriageheroes

They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. Verse ConceptsCedarFir TreesBoardsCedar Wood

It sends messengers by sea in boats made of reeds that skim over the surface of the water. Go, swift messengers, to a tall and smooth-skinned people, a people who are feared far and near, a strong and aggressive nation, whose land is divided by rivers. Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthBroadnessDimensions Of Other Thingsmathstructuremeasurement

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

David said: The house of Jehovah God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel. Verse ConceptsWorship, Places OfSacred PlacesBuilding God's Dwelling

David saw by this that Jehovah answered his prayer. So he offered sacrifices on the altar at Araunah's threshing place. Jehovah's tent that Moses made in the desert and the altar for burnt offerings were at the worship site at Gibeon. David could not go there to consult God because the sword of Jehovah's angel frightened him.

He also rebuilt Baalath and all the storage cities that he owned. He built all the cities for his chariots, all the cities for his warhorses, and whatever else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or the entire territory that he governed. Verse ConceptsFortificationsCavalry

So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom. Verse ConceptsHorsesStoringStores Of Food

He rebuilt Tadmor in the desert and built all the storage cities in Hamath.