21 occurrences in 13 translations

'Building' in the Bible

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBattering ramsFortsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

who [are] saying, "The building of houses [is] not near; [the city] is the pot, and we [are] the flesh.

Verse ConceptsCaldronsUntimelinessNot The TimePots For Cooking And EatingWeedcookingpot

Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceThe Insecurity Of The WickedBricksSeducersUnrestPlasterBeing MisleadNo PeaceError

building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.

Verse ConceptsCity SquaresUsing RoadsNot Like Peoplewhores

Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

Verse ConceptsFortsAttempting To KillSiege MoundsEarthly Armies

On his right hand he is divining against Jerusalem, preparing to set up battering rams, preparing for the slaughter, getting ready to sound the alarm for battle, setting the battering rams in place at the gates, building siege mounds, and erecting a siege wall.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsBattle CriesAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldEvil For The Right HandSiege Mounds

I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingNeverEmpty CitiesThings StrippedFishing

"When I gather the house of Israel from the nations to which I've scattered them, I will show them my holiness before the watching world, and they will live on the land that I gave to my servant Jacob. They will live in safety in the land, building houses and planting vineyards. They'll live in safety while I judge everyone who maligns them among those who surround them. At that time they'll learn that I am the LORD their God.'"

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofSafetyVineyardPlanting Vineyards

This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.

Verse ConceptsBuilding CitiesInhabitationBeing Cleansed From Sin

In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain; and upon it was as the building of a city, on the south.

Verse ConceptsCity Of GodVisions From GodHeavenly Visionstructure

And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Verse ConceptsLengthWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of WallsDimensions Of Other Things

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Walls

Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of BuildingsDimensions Of Walls

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of BuildingsPlans For A New Templemeasurement

And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Buildings

Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

Verse ConceptsCourts Of The Temple

[As] to [the] face of [the] length [of the building] [with] the doorway to the north, [it] [was] a hundred cubits, and its width [was] fifty cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Buildings

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Verse ConceptsNarrownessNarrow Things

For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Verse ConceptsDecksPillars For Ezekiel's TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.

Verse ConceptsFour Other Things

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