100 Bible Verses About Construction

And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

In the wilderness, Beth–arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

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

And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.

And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath–shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;

To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,

And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.

And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth–rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;

And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

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

And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

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.

And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:

And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion–geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.

And he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan.

These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.

The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

And Gederoth, Beth–dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:

And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.

And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:

And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.

And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:

And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.

And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the Lord commanded to make.

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.

And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.

And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

And Saul built an altar unto the Lord: the same was the first altar that he built unto the Lord.

And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,

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

Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.

Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.