Houses
82 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
50 sections
- (Building of) of Great Prosperity
- (Built and not Inhabited) of Calamity
- (Insecurity of) of Earthly Trust
- (On a Rock) the Hope of Saints
- (On Sand) the Delusive Hope of Hypocrites
- (To Inhabit Those, Built by Others) Abundant Feelings
- Accessible from the Outside
- Admission To, Gained by Knocking at the Door
- Antiquity of
- Apartments of, Were often: Ceiled and Painted
- Apartments of, Were often: Hung with Rich Tapestries
- Apartments of, Were often: Inlaid with Ivory
- Apartments of, Were often: Large and Airy
- Apartments of, Were often: Warmed with Fires
- Built of Bricks
- Built of Clay
- Built of Hewn or Cut Stone
- Built of Stone and Wood
- Custom of Fastening Nails, in Walls of, Alluded To
- Deep and Solid Foundations Required For
- Desolation of, Threatened As a Punishment
- Divided Into Apartments
- Doors of, How Fastened
- Doors of, Low and Small for Safety
- Entered by a Gate or Door
- had often Detached Apartments for Secrecy and for Strangers
- had often Several Stories
- Law Respecting the Sale of
- Liable to Leprosy
- Lighted by Windows
- Not to be Coveted
- Often Broken Down to Repair City Walls Before Sieges
- Often Built on City Walls
- Serpents often Lodged in Walls of
- Sometimes Built Without Foundation
- Street Windows of, High and Dangerous
- The Courts of, Large and Used As Apartments
- The Flat Roofs of had often Booths on Them
- The Flat Roofs of had often Idolatrous Altars on Them
- The Flat Roofs of Often Covered with Week Grass
- The Flat Roofs of Resorted to in Grief
- The Flat Roofs of Surrounded with Battlements
- The Flat Roofs of Used for Devotion
- The Flat Roofs of Used for Drying Flax
- The Flat Roofs of Used for Exercise
- The Flat Roofs of Used for Making Proclamations
- The Flat Roofs of Used for Secret Conference
- Upper Apartments of, the Best, and Used for Entertainments
- Walls of, Plastered
- when Finished Were Usually Dedicated
(Building of) of Great Prosperity
- Isaiah 65:21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Ezekiel 28:26 And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
(Built and not Inhabited) of Calamity
- Deuteronomy 28:30 You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
- 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.
- Zephaniah 1:13 Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
(Insecurity of) of Earthly Trust
- Matthew 6:19–20 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. …
(On a Rock) the Hope of Saints
- Matthew 7:24–25 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. …
(On Sand) the Delusive Hope of Hypocrites
- Matthew 7:24–25 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. …
(To Inhabit Those, Built by Others) Abundant Feelings
- Deuteronomy 6:10–11 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you— a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, …
Accessible from the Outside
- Matthew 24:17 Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
Admission To, Gained by Knocking at the Door
- Acts 12:13 He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
- Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
Antiquity of
- Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Genesis 19:3 But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Apartments of, Were often: Ceiled and 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.
- Haggai 1:4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
Apartments of, Were often: Hung with Rich Tapestries
- Esther 1:6 Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, …
Apartments of, Were often: Inlaid with Ivory
- 1 Kings 22:39 As for the rest of the acts of Ahab, along with all his accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
- 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.
Apartments of, Were often: Large and Airy
- 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.
Apartments of, Were often: Warmed with Fires
- Jeremiah 36:22 Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
- John 18:18 Because it was cold, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm. And Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.
Built of Bricks
- 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 Clay
- Job 4:19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Built of Hewn or Cut Stone
- 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 Stone and Wood
- Leviticus 14:40 he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
- Leviticus 14:42 So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house.
- Habakkuk 2:11 For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.
Custom of Fastening Nails, in Walls of, Alluded To
- Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
- Isaiah 22:23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
Deep and Solid Foundations Required For
- Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Luke 6:48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
Desolation of, Threatened As a Punishment
- Isaiah 5:9 I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
- Isaiah 13:16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
- Isaiah 13:21–22 But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. …
- Ezekiel 16:41 Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
- Ezekiel 26:12 They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.
Divided Into Apartments
- Genesis 43:30 Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
- Isaiah 26:20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
Doors of, How Fastened
- 2 Samuel 13:18 So Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
- Song of Solomon 5:5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
- Luke 11:7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
Doors of, Low and Small for Safety
- Proverbs 17:19 He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.
Entered by a Gate or Door
- Genesis 43:19 So they approached Joseph’s steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.
- Exodus 12:22 Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
- Luke 16:20 And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
- Acts 10:17 While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
had often Detached Apartments for Secrecy and for Strangers
- Judges 3:20–23 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. …
- 2 Kings 4:10–11 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.” …
- 2 Kings 9:2–3 When you arrive, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go in, get him away from his companions, and take him to an inner room. …
had often Several Stories
- Ezekiel 41:16 as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the …
- Acts 20:9 And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
Law Respecting the 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. …
Liable to Leprosy
- Leviticus 14:34–53 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land, …
Lighted by Windows
- 1 Kings 7:4 There were three rows of high windows facing one another in three tiers.
Not to be Coveted
- Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- Micah 2:2 They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
Often Broken Down to Repair City Walls Before Sieges
- Isaiah 22:10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
Often Built on 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.
- 2 Corinthians 11:33 But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
Serpents often Lodged in Walls of
- Amos 5:19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
Sometimes Built Without Foundation
- Matthew 7:26 But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
- Luke 6:49 But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell — and great was its destruction!”
Street Windows of, High and Dangerous
- 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 9:30 Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
- 2 Kings 9:33 “Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
- Acts 20:9 And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
The Courts of, Large and Used As Apartments
- 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.
- Luke 5:19 but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
The Flat Roofs of had often Booths on Them
- 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.
- 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.
- Proverbs 2:19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
The Flat Roofs of had often Idolatrous Altars on Them
- 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.”
- 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,
The Flat Roofs of Often Covered with Week Grass
- Psalm 129:6–7 May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow, …
The Flat Roofs of Resorted to in Grief
- Isaiah 15:3 In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- Jeremiah 48:38 On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.
The Flat Roofs of Surrounded with Battlements
- 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.
The Flat Roofs of Used for Devotion
- 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.
The Flat Roofs of Used for Drying Flax
- 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.)
The Flat Roofs of Used for Exercise
- 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.
- Daniel 4:29 Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
The Flat Roofs of Used for Making Proclamations
- 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.
The Flat Roofs of Used for Secret Conference
- 1 Samuel 9:25–26 And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house. …
Upper Apartments of, the Best, and Used for Entertainments
- Mark 14:15 And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
Walls of, Plastered
- Leviticus 14:42–43 So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house. …
when Finished Were Usually 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.
Related topics
Houses of the RichHouses of Brick or ClayHouses in Cities, Built in StreetsHouses of Criminals, DesolatedHouses of Saints' InheritanceHouses of the Body
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.