Thematic Bible: Mortar


Thematic Bible



making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

"Draw water, because a siege is coming! Strengthen your fortresses! Make the clay good and strong! Mix the mortar! Go get your brick molds!

They are then to take other stones and bring them to replace those stones. Lastly, they are to replaster the house."

because they've truly caused my people to stray saying, "Peace," but there's no peace.'"


People would go out to gather it, then they would grind it in mills or pound it in mortars, and then they would boil it in pots or make cakes out of it that tasted like butter cakes.

Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.


People would go out to gather it, then they would grind it in mills or pound it in mortars, and then they would boil it in pots or make cakes out of it that tasted like butter cakes.

Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.


They are then to take other stones and bring them to replace those stones. Lastly, they are to replaster the house."

He is to pull down the house, its stones, its lumber, and all the plaster on the house, and discard them in an unclean place outside the city.


""Her prophets whitewashed all of these things through false visions and lying divinations. They kept on saying, "This is what the Lord GOD says"", when the LORD has not spoken.


"You are stirring up one from the north, and they are coming from the rising of the sun; and he will be called by his name. Rulers will arrive like mud; just like a potter, he will trample the clay.


"Draw water, because a siege is coming! Strengthen your fortresses! Make the clay good and strong! Mix the mortar! Go get your brick molds!


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


making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.


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