100 Bible Verses About Building

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

And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar–haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

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

Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the Lord of bright brass.

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

The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

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

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,

And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

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 all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

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

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

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,

And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

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

Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

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

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

And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.

And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;

And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

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.

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

And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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

And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

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 he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

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

And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.

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

And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

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

And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

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.

In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath–shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;

And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

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 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 they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

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

So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

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.

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 said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.

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

And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

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

And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

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.

Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.

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

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

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.

Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.

Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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.