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Houses

 

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

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

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

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

OF BRICK OR CLAY

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

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