214 occurrences

'Building' in the Bible

From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

Assyria, Facts Of

And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

God Going DownGod Seeing The Wicked

And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

BricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

HousesSanctuaryGod's DwellingMetaphorical Planting

And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

CollectionsMorningTithesEvery MorningPeople WillingFree Will

They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)

Seven YearsGiants

So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:

So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

Cities In IsraelStock Keeping

And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

CityLargenessBuilding CitiesThe Promised LandCities In IsraelGod Gave The Land

And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.

PlunderingRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologySpoils Of WarBurning Citiesgenocide

If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

RooftopArchitectureHousesSanctity Of LifeBattlementsPeople Falling From A HeightGuiltconstruction

And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste,

PlasterCrossing Into The Promised Land

And when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up these stones, as I have said to you today, in Mount Ebal, and have them coated with building-paste.

PlasterCrossing Into The Promised Land

Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.

FoundationsFirstbornFathers, Sin Of TheAdjurationGatesOaths, HumanProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtDeath Of The FirstbornThe Youngest ChildFoundations Of NationsCity GatesCursing The UngodlyRebuilding Named Citiesrebuilding

By the orders of the Lord they gave him the town for which he made request, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim: there, after building the town, he made his living-place.

TownRebuilding Named Cities

This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

RenunciationBuilding AltarsIf You Turn From GodUnfaithful

But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

Fellowship, In The GospelRebellion Against God, Nature OfThe Altar Of The LordBuilding AltarsGod Living In The TabernacleUnclean Things

Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.

Fellowship OfferingThe Altar Of The Lord

And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

OlivesPlanting VineyardsOrchardsCities In IsraelGardens

And he went into the land of the Hittites, building a town there and naming it Luz: which is its name to this day.

BuildingGiven Names To This Day

And they had no saviour, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with Aram; and it was in the valley which is the property of Beth-rehob. And building up the town again they took it for their living-place.

ValleysFar From HereRebuilding Named CitiesBuilding Relationships

So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.

Groups going home

And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.

Arts And Crafts, Types ofPloughingWeaponsPloughmenAssignment

So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.

FortressesCity Of DavidStrongholdsZion, As A PlaceFortsPeople Naming ThingsRebuilding Jerusalem

Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

daughtersFortificationsAliancesCityBuildingJerusalem, History OfKingsPolygamySolomon, Character OfSolomon, Life OfWallsBuilding Jerusalem's WallBuilding Relationships

Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

CarpentersBuildingHousesImmigrantscraftsmanshipconstruction

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

BeginningKingsMonthProperty, HousesSolomon, Life OfTypes Of ChristCalendarsMonth 2100 Years And MoreStarting To BuildThe First Temple

(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

BuildingIronMasonsToolsHammersThe First Templeconstruction

About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

Keep The Commandments!

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

MonthNew Year, TheMonth 8Seven YearsMan's Work Finished

Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

Ten To Fourteen Yearsconstruction

From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

Freedom, Acts Of In OtCovenant, God's with DavidGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptA Place For God's NameGod's Election Of David

Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

Man's Work FinishedThe First Temple

Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

ConscriptionHard LaborBuilding Jerusalem's WallForced LabourRebuilding Jerusalem

The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

Sealing ThingsRebuilding Jerusalem

And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

ethics, and graceCommands, in OTBuildingKingsGod Will Be With YouKeep The Commandments!The Dynasty Of David

And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah, so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

FortressesSealing ThingsPeople Attacking Their Own

And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.

Cessation

Then King Asa got all Judah together, making every man come; and they took away the stones and the wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and King Asa made use of them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

ExemptCarrying Other LoadsWood And Stone

He got the hill Samaria from Shemer for the price of two talents of silver, and he made a town there, building it on the hill and naming it Samaria, after Shemer the owner of the hill.

BuildingCoinage

Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.

Kings Summoningsales

And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

OccupationsWood And Stonefreemasonry

But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

Repairing

And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

SecrecySecret SinsConcealment, Of SinActing In Secret

To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

CarpentersWood And Stonewoodworkingfreemasonry

And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.

ChamberlainsBurning Idolatrous ThingsAbandoning IdolsPrivate Rooms

Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.

enemies, of Israel and JudahAttackingInvasionsKingsSiegesTravelWarfare, Examples OfArmies, Against IsraelFortsMonth 10Years Of Zedekiah

And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order.

BuildingZion, As A Place

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

CraftsmenCarpentersMasonsPalacesZion, As A PlaceCedar Wood

And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

ForeignersSkillStonesStoneworkImmigrantsAliens

Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

Solomon's Temple

Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

Heart, And Holy SpiritOrthodoxy, In OtSeeking GodSolomon's TempleThe Ark In The TempleBeing Devoted to GodHeartfelt Prayer To God

From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.

Repairing

Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

FootstoolsPlansFear, Overcome ByThe Ark In The TempleMan's PurposesRoses

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

GemsIronJewelsMineralsStonesPrecious StonesColor

O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

Giving To GodRiches, Believers AttitudesGod's Provision

And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

Building

See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.

New Moon FestivalOrdinancesSabbath, In OtSmells

But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

God, As SpiritGod, Present EverywhereGod Is TranscendentGod, InfiniteGod's DwellingThe Vastness Of Nature

To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

CalvaryBeginningJerusalem, Significance OfKingsMountainsSolomon, Life OfThreshing FloorSolomon's TempleStarting To BuildThe First Temple

The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

Month 2construction

From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

Mind, The Human

He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

Foundations

Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

Fortified Cities

He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

GatesTowersWallsprospering

In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end.

Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.

Stones

And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

Together they made ships to go to Tarshish, building them in Ezion-geber.

The Navypartnership

So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

diligencereinforcement

Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

Walls

He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

WallsBuilding Jerusalem's WallGates Of The Temple

Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.

ArmourShieldsTowersWeaponsArmor ProtectionBuilding Jerusalem's Wallrebuildingreinforcement

And they gave it to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, and the overseers gave it to the workmen working in the house, for building it up and making good what was damaged;

Cyrus, king of Persia, has said, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord, the God of heaven; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him and let him go up.

Jerusalem, History OfKingdomsThe Second TempleGod Be With You

These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

KingdomsThe Second TempleResponsibility

Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

God Be With You

Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.

House Of GodPriests, Institution In Ot TimesTribes Of IsraelImpulsesMoving To A New Placejerusalem

And some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, gave freely of their wealth for the building up of the house of God in its place:

Freewill OfferingHouse Of GodFree Will

Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;

Build, LiterallyRebuilding The Temple

Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.

SamaritansExiled ForeignersTimes Of People

But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.

Commands, in OTWhat Have We In Common?

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

Trouble, Causes OfdiscouragementPersecution, Forms OfFear, Of PersecutionHindering God's WorkFear Of Enemiesconstruction

We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.

FoundationsCityJudaismBuilding Jerusalem's WallRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.

TaxationTributes

We give you word, that if the building of this town and its walls is made complete, there will be an end of your power in the country across the river.

Beyond The RiverBeyond The Euphrates

Give an order now, that these men are to do nothing more, and that the building of the town is to be stopped, till I give an order.

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, got up and made a start at building the house of God at Jerusalem: and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

AliancesHouse Of GodSchool Of ProphetsThe Second Temple

At the same time, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and their men, came to them and said, Who gave you orders to go on building this house and this wall?

enemies, of Israel and JudahGovernorsBeyond The RiverNamed Gentile RulersThe King's Ordersstructure

Then they said these words to them: What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?

structure

Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?

RestorationThe King's Ordersstructure

And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

Heaven And EarthServants Of The LordThe Second Templerebuilding

But in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order for the building of this house of God;

ProclamationsThe Second TempleThe King's OrdersThe First Templerebuilding

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Definition
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ἐποικοδομέω 
Epoikodomeo 
Usage: 8

בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

οἰκοδομέω 
Oikodomeo 
build , edify , builder , build up , be in building , embolden
Usage: 22

בּנה בּנא 
B@na' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 22

בּניה 
Binyah 
Usage: 1

בּנין 
Binyan 
Usage: 7

מקרה 
M@qareh 
Usage: 1

ἀνοικοδομέω 
Anoikodomeo 
Usage: 2

ἐνδόμησις 
Endomesis 
Usage: 1

κατασκευάζω 
Kataskeuazo 
Usage: 9

κτίσις 
Ktisis 
Usage: 15

οἰκοδομή 
Oikodome 
Usage: 17

συνοικοδομέω 
sunoikodomeo 
Usage: 1

τεχνίτης 
Technites 
Usage: 4

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