Bible Verses About Brick

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

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

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

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

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

But Solomon built him an house.

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

So Solomon built the house, and finished it.