Jeremiah 22:14
Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
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- 2 Sam 7:2 : 2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.
- Isa 5:8-9 : 8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land! 9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
- Hag 1:4 : 4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
- Mal 1:4 : 4 Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
- Luke 14:28-29 : 28 For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? 29 For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
- Isa 9:9 : 9 And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,
- Dan 4:30 : 30 The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
- 2 Chr 3:5 : 5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
- Prov 17:19 : 19 The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
- Prov 24:27 : 27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
- Song 1:17 : 17 Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
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13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
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15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
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9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.
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9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!
10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.
11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
12 A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
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4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
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18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
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5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
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9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.
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19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
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15 The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.
16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.
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14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
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11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
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15 And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.
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18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.
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8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.
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16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
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6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
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24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.
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15 So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?
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5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.
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1 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.
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11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
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11 Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.
12 And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?
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4 And for the house he made windows, with network across.
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18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
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16 And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;
17 And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.
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12 He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
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31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.
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6 To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.
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6 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.
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18 (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)
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9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
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21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
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13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.
14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
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3 The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:
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17 Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
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5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.
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30 And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
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15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
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18 Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!
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6 For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.
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8 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.