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‘Building’ in the Bible – All 51 Bible verses / Bible passages

Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Building’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.

The term ‘Building’ occurs 51 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Genesis

Genesis 11:5 Then the Lord descended to see the city and the tower, which the sons of Adam were building.Genesis 11:5

Genesis 39:5 And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian, because of Joseph, and he multiplied all his substance, as much in the buildings, as in the fields.Genesis 39:5

Number of the word / term Building in Genesis: 2

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Exodus

Exodus 12:13 But the blood will be for you as a sign in the buildings where you will be. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague will not be with you to destroy, when I strike the land of Egypt.Exodus 12:13

Number of the word / term Building in Exodus: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Leviticus

Leviticus 14:34 When you will have entered into the land of Canaan, which I will give to you as a possession, if there is the mark of leprosy in a building,Leviticus 14:34

Leviticus 25:32 The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.Leviticus 25:32

Number of the word / term Building in Leviticus: 2

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 19:1 “When the Lord your God will have destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to you, and when you possess it and live in its cities and buildings,Deuteronomy 19:1

Number of the word / term Building in Deuteronomy: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Joshua

Joshua 22:16 “All the people of the Lord declare this: What is this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord, the God of Israel, by building a sacrilegious altar, and by withdrawing from the worship of him?Joshua 22:16

Joshua 22:19 But if you consider the land of your possession to be unclean, cross over to the land in which is the tabernacle of the Lord, and live among us. But do not withdraw from the Lord, and from our fellowship, by building an altar contrary to the altar of the Lord our God.Joshua 22:19

Number of the word / term Building in Joshua: 2

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Judges

Judges 18:28 For no one at all sent reinforcements, because they lived far away from Sidon, and they had no association or business with any man. Now the city was situated in the region of Rehob. And building it up again, they lived in it,Judges 18:28

Number of the word / term Building in Judges: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book 1 Kings

1 Kings 3:1 And so the kingdom was confirmed in the hand of Solomon, and he was joined with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, by affinity. For he took his daughter, and he led her into the city of David, until he completed building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.1 Kings 3:1

1 Kings 6:2 Now the house, which king Solomon was building to the Lord, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height.1 Kings 6:2

1 Kings 6:12 “Concerning this house, which you are building: if you will walk in my precepts, and carry out my judgments, and keep all my commandments, advancing by them, I will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to your father David.1 Kings 6:12

1 Kings 9:1 Now it happened that, when Solomon had perfected the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all that he had desired and had willed to do,1 Kings 9:1

1 Kings 9:15 This is the sum of the expenses that king Solomon offered for the building of the house of the Lord, and his own house, and for Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.1 Kings 9:15

Number of the word / term Building in 1 Kings: 5

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book 1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 28:2 And when the king had risen up and was standing, he said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I thought that I would build a house, in which the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the footstool of our God, might rest. And so I prepared everything for its building.1 Chronicles 28:2

Number of the word / term Building in 1 Chronicles: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book 2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 14:7 Then he said to Judah: “Let us build these cities, and strengthen them with walls, and fortify them with towers and gates and bars, while all things are at rest from wars. For we have sought the Lord, the God of our fathers, and he has granted to us peace on every side.” And so they built, and there was nothing to impede them from building.2 Chronicles 14:7

2 Chronicles 34:11 And they gave it to the artisans and the stoneworkers, so that they might buy stones from the quarries, and wood for the joints of the building and for the upper floors the houses, which the kings of Judah had destroyed.2 Chronicles 34:11

Number of the word / term Building in 2 Chronicles: 2

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Ezra

Ezra 4:1 Now the enemies of Judah and of Benjamin heard that the sons of the captivity were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel.Ezra 4:1

Ezra 4:4 Therefore, it happened that the people of the land impeded the hands of the people of Judah, and they troubled them in building.Ezra 4:4

Ezra 4:12 Let it be known to the king, that the Jews, who ascended from you to us, have arrived in Jerusalem, a rebellious and most wicked city, which they are building, constructing its ramparts and repairing the walls.Ezra 4:12

Ezra 5:4 We responded to this by giving them the names of the men who were the founders of that building.Ezra 5:4

Ezra 5:8 Let it be known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which they are building with rough stones, and with timber set into the walls. And this work is being built up diligently, and it increases by their hands.Ezra 5:8

Ezra 5:11 Then they responded a word to us in this manner, saying: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. And we are building the temple that was constructed these many years before, and which a great king of Israel had built and constructed.Ezra 5:11

Ezra 6:14 Then the elders of the Jews were building and prospering, in accord with the prophecy of Haggai, the prophet, and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. And they built and constructed by the order of the God of Israel, and by the order of Cyrus and Darius, as well as Artaxerxes, the kings of the Persians.Ezra 6:14

Number of the word / term Building in Ezra: 7

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Nehemiah

Nehemiah 4:1 Now it happened that, when Sanballat had heard that we were building the wall, he was very angry. And having been moved exceedingly, he ridiculed the Jews.Nehemiah 4:1

Nehemiah 4:5 May you not conceal their iniquity, and may their sin not be wiped away, before your face, for they have ridiculed those who are building.Nehemiah 4:5

Nehemiah 4:17 As for those building the wall, and carrying the burdens, and setting things in place: one of his hands was doing the work, and the other was holding a sword.Nehemiah 4:17

Nehemiah 4:18 For each one of the builders was girded with a sword at the waist. And they were building, and they were sounding a trumpet beside me.Nehemiah 4:18

Nehemiah 6:6 “It has been heard among the Gentiles, and Geshem has said it, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel, and because of this, you are building the wall and thinking to raise yourself as a king over them. For this reason,Nehemiah 6:6

Number of the word / term Building in Nehemiah: 5

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Proverbs

Proverbs 30:28 The lizard supports itself on hands and dwells in the buildings of kings.Proverbs 30:28

Number of the word / term Building in Proverbs: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Isaiah

Isaiah 13:22 And the tawny owls will answer one another there, in its buildings, and the Sirens in its shrines of pleasure.Isaiah 13:22

Number of the word / term Building in Isaiah: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Ezekiel

Ezekiel 42:5 In that place, there were storerooms in the upper part of the lower level. For they supported the porticos, which projected from them out of the lower level, and out of the middle of the building.Ezekiel 42:5

Number of the word / term Building in Ezekiel: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Amos

Amos 1:7 And I will send a fire onto the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its buildings.Amos 1:7

Amos 1:10 And I will send a fire onto the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its buildings.Amos 1:10

Amos 1:12 I will send a fire onto Teman, and it will devour the buildings of Bozrah.Amos 1:12

Amos 1:14 And I will ignite a fire on the wall of Rabbah. And it will devour its buildings, with wailing on the day of war, and with a whirlwind on the day of commotion.Amos 1:14

Amos 2:2 And I will send a fire onto Moab, and it will devour the buildings of Kerioth. And Moab will die with a noise, with the blare of a trumpet.Amos 2:2

Amos 2:5 And I will send a fire onto Judah, and it will devour the buildings of Jerusalem.Amos 2:5

Amos 3:9 Let it be heard in the buildings of Ashdod and in the buildings of the land of Egypt, and say: Gather together across the mountains of Samaria, and see the many absurdities in its midst, and those who are suffering false accusations in its inner most places.Amos 3:9

Amos 3:10 And they do not know how to make it right, says the Lord, storing up iniquity and plunder in their buildings.Amos 3:10

Amos 3:11 Because of these things, thus says the Lord God: The land will be encircled and squeezed together. And your strength will be drawn away from you, and your buildings will be torn apart.Amos 3:11

Amos 3:15 And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and many buildings will be torn apart, says the Lord.Amos 3:15

Number of the word / term Building in Amos: 10

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Habakkuk

Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wood that is between the joints of the building will respond.Habakkuk 2:11

Number of the word / term Building in Habakkuk: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Haggai

Haggai 1:2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: This people claims that the time has not yet arrived for building the house of the Lord.Haggai 1:2

Number of the word / term Building in Haggai: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Zechariah

Zechariah 1:16 Because of this, thus says the Lord: I will be turned back, towards Jerusalem, with mercies; and my house will be built upon this, says the Lord of hosts. And the building line will be extended over Jerusalem.Zechariah 1:16

Number of the word / term Building in Zechariah: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Matthew

Matthew 24:1 And Jesus departed from the temple and went away. And his disciples approached him, so as to show him the buildings of the temple.Matthew 24:1

Number of the word / term Building in Matthew: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Luke

Luke 6:48 He is like a man building a house, who has dug deep and has laid the foundation upon the rock. Then, when the floodwaters came, the river was rushing against that house, and it was not able to move it. For it was founded upon the rock.Luke 6:48

Luke 6:49 But whoever hears and does not do: he is like a man building his house upon the soil, without a foundation. The river rushed against it, and it soon fell down, and the ruin of that house was great.”Luke 6:49

Luke 17:28 It shall be similar to what happened in the days of Lot. They were eating and drinking; they were buying and selling; they were planting and building.Luke 17:28

Number of the word / term Building in Luke: 3

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.2 Corinthians 5:1

Number of the word / term Building in 2 Corinthians: 1

Bible passages with ‘Building’ in the book Jude

Jude 1:20 But you, most beloved, are building yourselves up by your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,Jude 1:20

Number of the word / term ‘Building’ in Jude: 1

These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.

Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 51

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