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