95 Bible Verses About Architecture

Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:

And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.

And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.

And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.

And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.

And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.

And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth–horon the nether,

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.

The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,

And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.

The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.

And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.