Bible Verses About Renovation

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

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

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

And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the corner.

Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house:

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

Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

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

And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

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

He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem:

Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,

So Solomon built the house, and finished it.