House
78 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
33 sections
- “A Man's Castle”
- Architecture of Altars On
- Architecture of Battlements Required in Mosaic Law
- Architecture of Booths On
- Architecture of Ceiled and Plastered
- Architecture of Chambers
- Architecture of Chimneys of
- Architecture of Cornerstone
- Architecture of Courts
- Architecture of Dedicated
- Architecture of Figurative
- Architecture of Foundations of Stone
- Architecture of Guest Chamber
- Architecture of Hinges
- Architecture of Inner Chamber
- Architecture of Lattice
- Architecture of Laws Regarding Sale of
- Architecture of Painted
- Architecture of Pillars
- Architecture of Porches
- Architecture of Prayer On
- Architecture of Roofs, Flat
- Architecture of Summer Apartment
- Architecture of Texts of Scripture on Doorposts of
- Architecture of Used As Dwelling Place
- Architecture of Used As Place to Sleep
- Architecture of Windows
- Architecture of with Courts
- Built Into City Walls
- Built of Brick
- Built of Stone
- Built of Wood
- Figurative
“A Man's Castle”
- Deuteronomy 24:10–11 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. …
Architecture of Altars On
- 2 Kings 23:12 He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and …
- Jeremiah 19:13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth— all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
- Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink …
- Zephaniah 1:5 those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,
Architecture of Battlements Required in Mosaic Law
- Deuteronomy 22:8 If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
Architecture of Booths On
- Nehemiah 8:16 And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
Architecture of Ceiled and Plastered
- Daniel 5:5 At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
Architecture of Chambers
- Genesis 43:30 Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
- 2 Samuel 18:33 The king was shaken and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
- 2 Kings 1:2 Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
- 2 Kings 4:10 Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
- Acts 1:13 When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
- Acts 9:37 At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.
- Acts 20:8 Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
Architecture of Chimneys of
- Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Architecture of Cornerstone
- Job 38:6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
- Psalm 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Architecture of Courts
- Esther 1:5 At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
Architecture of Dedicated
- Deuteronomy 20:5 Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
- Psalm 30:1 I will exalt You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.
Architecture of Figurative
- Psalm 87:1 He has founded His city on the holy mountains.
- Isaiah 28:16 So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
- Isaiah 48:13 Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
- Romans 15:20 In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
- 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 2:20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
- 1 Timothy 6:19 treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
- Hebrews 6:1 Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,
- Revelation 21:14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Architecture of Foundations of Stone
- 1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
- 1 Kings 7:9 All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
- Ezra 6:3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and …
- Jeremiah 51:26 No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
Architecture of Guest Chamber
- Mark 14:14 and whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’
Architecture of Hinges
- Proverbs 26:14 As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
Architecture of Inner Chamber
- 1 Kings 22:25 Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”
Architecture of Lattice
- Judges 5:28 Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
Architecture of Laws Regarding Sale of
- Leviticus 25:29–33 If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed. …
- Nehemiah 5:3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
Architecture of Painted
- Jeremiah 22:14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
- Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 8:12 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
Architecture of Pillars
- Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
Architecture of Porches
- Judges 3:23 Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.
- 1 Kings 7:6–7 Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico. …
Architecture of Prayer On
- Acts 10:9 The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
Architecture of Roofs, Flat
- Joshua 2:6 (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
- Judges 16:27 Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
- 1 Samuel 9:25 And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
- 2 Samuel 11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing— a very beautiful woman.
- 2 Samuel 16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- Isaiah 15:3 In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- Isaiah 22:1 This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
- Matthew 24:17 Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
- Luke 12:3 What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
Architecture of Summer Apartment
- Judges 3:20 Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.
- Amos 3:15 I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
- 1 Kings 17:19 But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
Architecture of Texts of Scripture on Doorposts of
- Deuteronomy 6:9 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
Architecture of Used As Dwelling Place
- Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Proverbs 25:24 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Architecture of Used As Place to Sleep
- Joshua 2:8 Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof
- Acts 10:9 The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
Architecture of Windows
- Judges 5:28 Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
- Proverbs 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
Architecture of with Courts
- Nehemiah 8:16 And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
Built Into City Walls
- Joshua 2:15 Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
Built of Brick
- Genesis 11:3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- Exodus 1:11–14 So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. …
- Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
Built of Stone
- Leviticus 14:40–45 he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city. …
- Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- Amos 5:11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
Built of Wood
- Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
- Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
Figurative
- 2 Samuel 7:18 Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
- Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
- Psalm 36:8 They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
- John 14:2 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
- 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- 1 Timothy 3:15 in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
- Hebrews 3:2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.