Thematic Bible: Slime
Thematic Bible
Mortar » Cement » Slime » Building » Babel
They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar.
Slime » Cement or slime
They made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar, brick, and all kinds of field work. All their labor was harsh and severe.
Draw water for a [long, continued] siege!
Strengthen your fortresses!
Go down to the clay pits, trample the mortar!
Prepare the brick kiln [to burn bricks for the rampart]!
Then they shall take new stones and replace the [contaminated] stones, and he shall take plaster and replaster the house.
It is definitely because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because when one builds a [flimsy] wall, behold, these [lying] prophets plaster it over with whitewash;
Slime » The valley of siddim afforded
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar (bitumen) pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them. But the remainder [of the kings] who survived fled to the hill country.
Slime » Flammable
The streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
Slime » Used in noah's ark
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, compartments) and coat it inside and out with pitch (bitumen).
Slime » Used at babel
They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar.
Slime » Used in the ark (small basket) of moses when he was an infant
When she could no longer hide him, she got him a basket (chest) made of papyrus reeds and covered it with tar and pitch [making it waterproof]. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.