Concordance

“Build” in the Bible

362 verses contain “build” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 4:17 And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.
Genesis 6:15 And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Genesis 6:16 You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 10:11 From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Genesis 11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face…
Genesis 11:5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:8 … tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the…
Genesis 13:4 to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:18 So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
Genesis 16:2 …earing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of…
Genesis 22:9 When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.
Genesis 26:25 So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.
Genesis 30:3 Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
Genesis 31:1 Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
Genesis 33:17 but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
Genesis 35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Genesis 35:3 Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Genesis 35:7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
Genesis 39:6 So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
Exodus 1:11 So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.
Exodus 20:25 Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.
Exodus 24:4 …the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of…
Exodus 27:1 “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
Exodus 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”
Numbers 13:22 …, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in…
Numbers 23:1 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
Numbers 23:14 So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:29 Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
Numbers 32:16 Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
Numbers 32:24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
Numbers 32:34 And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
Numbers 32:37 The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
Deuteronomy 6:10 … you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not…
Deuteronomy 8:12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
Deuteronomy 16:21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 19:3 You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to…
Deuteronomy 20:5 … the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate…
Deuteronomy 20:20 But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
Deuteronomy 22:8 If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
Deuteronomy 27:5 Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
Deuteronomy 27:6 You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 28:30 …iage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its…
Joshua 2:15 Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
Joshua 8:30 At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,
Joshua 8:31 …es the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no…
Joshua 11:13 Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
Joshua 22:10 …the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the…
Joshua 22:11 …eubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the border of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite…
Joshua 22:16 …against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this…
Joshua 22:19 …mong us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our…
Joshua 22:23 If we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from Him and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the…
Joshua 22:26 That is why we said, ‘Let us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.
Joshua 22:29 …s to rebel against the LORD and turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our…
Joshua 24:13 … land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not…
Judges 1:26 And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
Judges 6:24 So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges 6:26 Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a…
Judges 6:28 … down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built…
Judges 21:4 The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Ruth 4:11 …woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in…
1 Samuel 2:35 …st. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all…
1 Samuel 7:17 Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
1 Samuel 14:35 Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.
2 Samuel 5:9 So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
2 Samuel 5:11 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.
2 Samuel 7:5 “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?
2 Samuel 7:7 In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
2 Samuel 7:13 He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Samuel 7:27 …, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to…
2 Samuel 20:15 …ab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall…
2 Samuel 24:18 And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
2 Samuel 24:21 …. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be…
2 Samuel 24:25 And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon…
1 Kings 2:36 Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.
1 Kings 3:1 …omon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around…
1 Kings 3:2 The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
1 Kings 5:3 …rs waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his…
1 Kings 5:5 So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your…
1 Kings 6:1 …the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the…
1 Kings 6:2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
1 Kings 6:5 Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
1 Kings 6:7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
1 Kings 6:9 So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
1 Kings 6:10 He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
1 Kings 6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you…
1 Kings 6:14 So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
1 Kings 6:36 Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
1 Kings 6:38 …in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven…
1 Kings 7:2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
1 Kings 7:7 In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
1 Kings 8:13 I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
1 Kings 8:16 …have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people…
1 Kings 8:17 Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:18 But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
1 Kings 8:19 Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
1 Kings 8:20 …I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of…
1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
1 Kings 8:43 …ur people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your…
1 Kings 8:44 … direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your…
1 Kings 8:48 …eir fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your…
1 Kings 9:1 Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
1 Kings 9:3 …petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all…
1 Kings 9:10 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
1 Kings 9:15 …he account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as…
1 Kings 9:19 as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
1 Kings 9:24 As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
1 Kings 9:25 …red burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the…
1 Kings 10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
1 Kings 11:7 At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:27 and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
1 Kings 11:38 …ts as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to…
1 Kings 12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
1 Kings 12:31 Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
1 Kings 14:23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 15:22 …way the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as…
1 Kings 15:23 …h all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he…
1 Kings 16:24 He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
1 Kings 16:32 First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.
1 Kings 18:32 And with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
1 Kings 22:39 … accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of…
1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
2 Kings 6:2 Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
2 Kings 16:11 And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.
2 Kings 16:18 And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 17:9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.
2 Kings 19:32 … arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against…
2 Kings 21:4 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
2 Kings 21:5 In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings 23:13 …f the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for…
2 Kings 25:1 …em with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around…
2 Kings 25:9 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
1 Chronicles 6:10 Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem,
1 Chronicles 6:32 …g before the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. And they performed their duties according to the regulations given…
1 Chronicles 7:24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.
1 Chronicles 8:13 Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its villages), and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families of the inhabitants of Aijalon and who drove out the…
1 Chronicles 11:8 He built up the city around it, from the supporting terraces to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city.
1 Chronicles 14:1 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters, to build a palace for him.
1 Chronicles 17:4 “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.
1 Chronicles 17:6 In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
1 Chronicles 17:10 …your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for…
1 Chronicles 17:12 He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 17:25 For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You.
1 Chronicles 21:18 Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:22 …nan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be…
1 Chronicles 21:26 And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of…

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