Thematic Bible: Mortar


Thematic Bible



and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them. Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

Draw water for the siege;
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!
Verse ConceptsBricksClayClay, UsesDrinking WaterThe Nations Attacked

Then they must take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house. Verse ConceptsClayBricksPlasterBuilding Stones Rejected

“Since they have led My people astray saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, for when someone builds a wall they plaster it with whitewash, Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceThe Insecurity Of The WickedBricksSeducersUnrestPlasterBeing MisleadNo PeaceError

The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.
Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfGrindingBricksGrinding People

The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.
Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfGrindingBricksGrinding People

Then they must take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house. Verse ConceptsClayBricksPlasterBuilding Stones Rejected

It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place. Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesOutside The CityUnclean Things

Her prophets plaster with whitewash for them by seeing false visions and lying divinations, and they say, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken. Verse ConceptsVisionsWhiteDivinationWhitewashingFalse VisionsProphesying LiesProphets Who Were Not SentFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,
one from the east who invokes My name.
He will march over rulers as if they were mud,
like a potter who treads the clay.
Verse ConceptsClayeastCraftsmenPotterVictory, As An Act Of GodPotteryClay, UsesOut Of The North

Draw water for the siege;
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!
Verse ConceptsBricksClayClay, UsesDrinking WaterThe Nations Attacked

They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar. Verse ConceptsBricksequipping, physicalBakingBuilding

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them. Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

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