MORTAR

Passages on this topic · 9

• Genesis 11:3

  They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

• Exodus 1:14

  and 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.

• Leviticus 14:42

  They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

• Leviticus 14:45

  He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

• Numbers 11:8

  The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

• Proverbs 27:22

  Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

• Isaiah 41:25

  “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

• Ezekiel 22:28

  Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.