'House' in the Bible

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house:

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds.

But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.

We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.

Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee , That he may dwell in thy courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, Thy holy temple.

I will come into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will pay thee my vows,

For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. Selah

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

They are planted in the house of Jehovah; They shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thy house, O Jehovah, for evermore.

He hath remembered his lovingkindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.

He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his substance;

Wealth and riches are in his house; And his righteousness endureth for ever.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.

When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield.

Jehovah hath been mindful of us; he will bless us : He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.

In the courts of Jehovah's house, In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye Jehovah.

Let the house of Aaron now say, That his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of Jehovah: We have blessed you out of the house of Jehovah.

Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of Jehovah.

For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.

For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.

Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, Nor go up into my bed;

Behold, bless ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, That by night stand in the house of Jehovah.

Ye that stand in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of the house of our God.

O house of Israel, bless ye Jehovah: O house of Aaron, bless ye Jehovah:

O house of Levi, bless ye Jehovah: Ye that fear Jehovah, bless ye Jehovah.

For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.

Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house.

For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:

And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.

Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure; But in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; But he that hateth bribes shall live.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin.

Through wisdom is a house builded; And by understanding it is established;

Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor's house, Lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,

The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs.

It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.

I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.

And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are'soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father,'saying , Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

in that day shall he lift up his voice , saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?

Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah- even the king of Assyria.

And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.

And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say ,

He will surely wind thee round and round, and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord's house.

and I will cloth him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.