Genesis 11:3

The people decided to make and bake bricks, using them for stone and tar for mortar. They organize their resources for a great building effort.

Cross-references · 19

• Gen 14:10Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
• Exod 1:14and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
• Exod 2:3When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
• Heb 10:24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
• Jas 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Isa 9:10“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
• Heb 3:13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• 2 Sam 12:31He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
• Isa 41:6–7Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
• Nah 3:14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
• Jas 4:13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
• Ps 64:5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
• Gen 11:7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
• Prov 1:11If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
• Isa 5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
• Gen 11:4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
• Eccl 2:1I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity.
• Exod 5:7–18“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
• Isa 65:3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

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