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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

• 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 5:11

In 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 129:6,7

Accessible 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 18:18

Upper 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 2:9

OF BRICK OR CLAY

• Plastered
- Eze 13:10,11
• Easily broken through
- Job 24:16; Eze 12:5
• Often swept away by torrents
- Eze 13:13,14

When 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
- De 6:10,11
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