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Houses
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
ILLUSTRATIVE
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