HOUSES
HOUSES
- Antiquity of # Ge 12:1 19:3
- Deep and solid foundations required for # Mt 7:24 Lu 6:48
- Sometimes built without foundation # Mt 7:26 Lu 6:49
- BUILT OF 4a) Clay
# Job 4:19
4b) Bricks # Ex 1:11-14 Isa 9:10 4c) Stone and wood # Le 14:40,42 Hab 2:11 4d) Hewn or cut stone # Isa 3:10 Am 5:11 5) In cities, built in streets # Ge 19:2 Jos 2:19 6) Often built on city walls # Jos 2:15 2Co 11:33 7) THE FLAT ROOFS OF 7a) Surrounded with battlements # De 22:8 7b) Had often booths on them # 2Sa 16:22 Ne 8:16 Pr 2:19 7c) Had often idolatrous altars on them # 2Ki 23:12 Jer 19:13 Zep 1:5 7d) Used for drying flax # Jos 2:6 7e) Used for exercise # 2Sa 11:2 Da 4:29 7f) Used for devotion # Ac 10:9 7g) Used for making proclamations # Lu 12:3 7h) Used for secret conference # 1Sa 9:25,26 7i) Resorted to in grief # Isa 15:3 Jer 48:38 7j) Often covered with week grass # Ps 129:6,7 8) Accessible from the outside # Mt 24:17 9) The courts of, large and used as apartments # Es 1:5 Lu 5:19 10) Entered by a gate or door # Ge 43:19 Ex 12:22 Lu 16:20 Ac 10:17 11) Doors of, low and small for safety # Pr 17:19 12) Doors of, how fastened # 2Sa 13:18 So 5:5 Lu 11:7 13) Admission to, gained by knocking at the door # Ac 12:13 Re 3:20 14) Walls of, plastered # Le 14:42,43 15) Serpents often lodged in walls of # Am 5:19 16) Custom of fastening nails, &c, in walls of, alluded to # Ec 12:11 Isa 22:23 17) Had often several stories # Eze 41:16 Ac 20:9 18) Divided into apartments # Ge 43:30 Isa 26:20 19) APARTMENTS OF, WERE OFTEN 19a) Large and airy # Jer 22:14 19b) Ceiled and painted # Jer 22:14 Hag 1:4 19c) Inlaid with ivory # 1Ki 22:39 Am 3:15 19d) Hung with rich tapestries # Es 1:6 19e) Warmed with fires # Jer 36:22 Joh 18:18 20) Upper apartments of, the best, and used for entertainments # Mr 14:15 21) Had often detached apartments for secrecy and for strangers # Jud 3:20-23 2Ki 4:10,11 9:2,3 22) Lighted by windows # 1Ki 7:4 23) Street windows of, high and dangerous # 2Ki 1:2 9:30,33 Ac 20:9 24) OF THE RICH 24a) Great # Isa 5:9 Am 6:11 2Ti 2:20 24b) Goodly # De 8:12 24c) Pleasant # Eze 26:12 Mic 2:9 25) OF BRICK OR CLAY 25a) Plastered # Eze 13:10,11 25b) Easily broken through # Job 24:16 Eze 12:5 25c) Often swept away by torrents # Eze 13:13,14 26) When finished were usually dedicated # De 20:5 Ps 30:1 27) For summer residence # Am 3:15 28) Liable to leprosy # Le 14:34-53 29) Not to be coveted # Ex 20:17 Mic 2:2 30) Were hired # Ac 28:30 31) Were mortgaged # Ne 5:3 32) Were sold # Ac 4:34 33) Law respecting the sale of # Le 25:29-33 34) Of criminals, desolated # Da 2:5 3:29 35) Desolation of, threatened as a punishment # Isa 5:9 13:16,21,22 Eze 16:41 26:12 36) Often broken down to repair city walls before sieges # Isa 22:10 37) ILLUSTRATIVE 37a) Of the body # Job 4:19 2Co 5:1 37b) Of the grave # Job 30:23 37c) Of the church # Heb 3:6 1Pe 2:5 37d) Of saints’ inheritance # Joh 14:2 2Co 5:1 37e) (On sand,) of the delusive hope of hypocrites # Mt 7:24,25 37f) (On a rock,) of the hope of saints # Mt 7:24,25 37g) (Insecurity of,) of earthly trust # Mt 6:19,20 37h) (Building of,) of great prosperity # Isa 65:21 Eze 28:26 37i) (Built and not inhabited,) of calamity # De 28:30 Am 5:11 Zep 1:13 37j) (To inhabit those, built by others,) of abundant feelings # De 6:10,11