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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"/><title>Topical Bible: Brick</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/topical/b/brick.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newtopical.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/topical/vmenus/genesis/11-3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmcde/b/brick.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/topical/">Topical</a> > Brick</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/topical/b/bribing.htm" title="Bribing">◄</a> Brick <a href="/topical/b/brick_kiln.htm" title="Brick Kiln">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Jump to: <a href="#smi" title="Smith's Bible Dictionary">Smith's</a> • <a href="#isb" title="International Standard Bible Encyclopedia">ISBE</a> • <a href="#web" title="Webster's Dictionary">Webster's</a> • <a href="#cnc" title="Multiversion Concordance">Concordance</a> • <a href="#thes" title="Bible Thesaurus">Thesaurus</a> • <a href="#heb" title="Strong's Hebrew Concordance">Hebrew</a> • <a href="#lib" title="Library">Library</a> • <a href="#sub" title="Subtopics">Subtopics</a> • <a href="#rel" title="Related Terms">Terms</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><a name="te" id="te"></a><div class="vheading2">Topical Encyclopedia</div><b>Definition and Composition:</b> <br>A brick is a building material typically made from clay, mud, or a mixture of straw and clay, which is then dried and hardened. In ancient times, bricks were often sun-dried, although kiln-fired bricks were also used in some regions. The use of bricks in construction is a testament to human ingenuity in creating durable structures from readily available materials.<br><br><b>Biblical References:</b> <br>Bricks are mentioned several times in the Bible, often in the context of construction and labor. One of the most notable references is found in the account of the Tower of Babel. <a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a> states, "They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.' They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar." This passage highlights the technological advancement of using bricks for large-scale construction projects, as well as the human ambition to build a city and a tower reaching to the heavens.<br><br>In Exodus, bricks are associated with the Israelites' bondage in Egypt. The Egyptians forced the Israelites to make bricks as part of their oppressive labor. <a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Exodus 1:14</a> describes this harsh treatment: "They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor, the Egyptians used them<a name="smi" id="smi"></a><div class="vheading2">Smith's Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Brick</span><p>(<a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a>) The brick in use among the Jews were much larger than with us, being usually from 12 to 13 inches square and 3 1/2 inches thick; they thus possess more of the character of tiles. (<a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm">Ezekiel 4:1</a>) The Israelites, in common with other captives, were employed by the Egyptian monarchs in making bricks and in building. (<a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Exodus 1:14</a>; <a href="/exodus/5-7.htm">5:7</a>) Egyptian bricks were not generally dried in kilns, but in the sun. That brick-kilns were known is evident from (<a href="/2_samuel/12-31.htm">2 Samuel 12:31</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/43-9.htm">Jeremiah 43:9</a>) When made of the Nile mud they required straw to prevent cracking. [See <a href="../s/straw.htm">STRAW</a>]<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.<p>3. (<I>n.</I>) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).<p>4. (<I>n.</I>) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.<p>5. (<I>v. t.</I>) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.<p>6. (<I>v. t.</I>) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">BRICK</span><p>(lebhenah): The ancient Egyptian word appears in the modern Egyptian Arabic toob. In Syria the sun-baked bricks are commonly called libn or lebin, from the same Semitic root as the Hebrew word.<br><br>Bricks are mentioned only a few times in the Bible. The story of how the Children of Israel, while in bondage in Egypt, had their task of brick-making made more irksome by being required to collect their own straw is one of the most familiar of Bible narratives (<a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Exodus 1:14</a>; <a href="/exodus/5-7.htm">Exodus 5:7, 10-19</a>).<br><br>Modern excavations at Pithom in Egypt (<a href="/exodus/1-11.htm">Exodus 1:11</a>) show that most of the bricks of which that store-city was built were made of mud and straw baked in the sun. These ruins are chosen as an example from among the many ancient brick structures because they probably represent the work of the very Hebrew slaves who complained so bitterly of their royal taskmaster. In some of the upper courses rushes had been substituted for straw, and still other bricks had no fibrous material. These variations could be explained by a scarcity of straw at that time, since, when there was a shortage in the crops, all the straw (Arabic, tibn) was needed for feeding the animals. It may be that when the order came for the workmen to provide their own straw they found it impossible to gather sufficient and still furnish the required number of bricks (<a href="/exodus/5-8.htm">Exodus 5:8</a>). However, the quality of clay of which some of the bricks were made was such that no straw was needed.<br><br>Brickmaking in early Egyptian history was a government monopoly. The fact that the government pressed into service her Asiatic captives, among whom were the Children of Israel, made it impossible for independent makers to compete. The early bricks usually bore the government, stamp or the stamp of some temple authorized to use the captives for brick manufacture. The methods employed by the ancient Egyptians differ in no respect from the modern procedure in that country. The Nile mud is thoroughly slipped or mixed and then rendered more cohesive by the addition of chopped straw or stubble. The pasty mass is next worked into a mould made in the shape of a box without a bottom. If the sides of the mould have been dusted with dry earth it will easily slip off and the brick is allowed to dry in the sun until it becomes so hard that the blow of a hammer is often necessary to break it.<br><br>When the children of Israel emigrated to their new country they found the same methods of brickmaking employed by the inhabitants, methods which are still in vogue throughout the greater part of Palestine and Syria. In the interior of the country, especially where the building stone is scarce or of poor quality, the houses are made of sun-baked brick (libn). Frequently the west and south walls, which are exposed most to the winter storms, are made of hewn stone and the rest of the structure of bricks. When the brick-laying is finished the house is plastered inside and outside with the same material of which the bricks are made and finally whitewashed or painted with grey- or yellow-colored earth. The outer coating of plaster must be renewed from year to year. In some of the villages of northern Syria the brick houses are dome-shaped, looking much like beehives. In the defiant assertion of <a href="/isaiah/9-10.htm">Isaiah 9:10</a> the superiority of hewn stone over bricks implied a greater difference in cost and stability than exists between a frame house and a stone house in western lands today.<br><br>In the buildings of ancient Babylonia burnt bricks were used. These have been found by modern excavators, which confirms the description of <a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a>. Burnt bricks were rarely used in Egypt before the Roman period and in Palestine their use for building purposes was unknown. Specimens of partially burnt, glazed bricks have been found in Babylonia and recently in one of the Hittite mounds of northern Syria. These were probably used for decorative purposes only. If burnt bricks had been generally used in Palestine, races of them would have been found with the pottery which is so abundant in the ruins (see POTTERY).<br><br>The fact that unburnt bricks were so commonly used explains how the sites of such cities as ancient Jericho could have become lost for so many centuries. When the houses and walls fell they formed a heap of earth not distinguishable from the surrounding soil. The wood rotted and the iron rusted away, leaving for the excavator a few bronze and stone implements and the fragments of pottery which are so precious as a means of identification. The "tels" or mounds of Palestine and Syria often represent the ruins of several such cities one above the other.<br><br>LITERATURE.<br><br>H. A. Harper, The Bible and Modern Discoveries; Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt; Hilprecht, Recent Research in Bible Lands.<br><br>James A. Patch<p><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/4404.htm"><span class="l">4404. malben -- a <b>brick</b> mold, quadrangle</span></a><br><b>...</b> 4403, 4404. malben. 4405 . a <b>brick</b> mold, quadrangle. Transliteration: malben<br> Phonetic Spelling: (mal-bane') Short Definition: <b>brick</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4404.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3843.htm"><span class="l">3843. lebenah -- <b>brick</b>, tile</span></a><br><b>...</b> 3842, 3843. lebenah. 3844 . <b>brick</b>, tile. Transliteration: lebenah Phonetic<br> Spelling: (leb-ay-naw') Short Definition: bricks. <b>...</b> altar of <b>brick</b>, tile. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3843.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3835b.htm"><span class="l">3835b. laban -- to make <b>brick</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 3835a, 3835b. laban. 3836 . to make <b>brick</b>. Transliteration: laban Short<br> Definition: <b>brick</b>. Word Origin denominative verb from lebenah <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3835b.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/3835.htm"><span class="l">3835. laban -- to be white</span></a><br><b>...</b> 3834, 3835. laban. 3835a . to be white. Transliteration: laban Phonetic Spelling:<br> (law-ban') Short Definition: <b>brick</b>. make <b>brick</b>, be made, make whiter <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/3835.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_2_concerning_the_posterity.htm"><span class="l">Concerning the Posterity of Adam, and the Ten Generations from Him <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence<br> and quantity of water, they made two pillars, [10] the one of <b>brick</b>, the other <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 2 concerning the posterity.htm</font><p><a href="/library/miller/the_yoke/chapter_i_choosing_the_tens.htm"><span class="l">Choosing the Tens</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Below in the still shadowy passages and interiors, speckled with fallen mortar,<br> lay chains, rubble of <b>brick</b> and chipped stone; splinters, flinders and odd ends <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter i choosing the tens.htm</font><p><a href="/library/tidwell/the_bible_period_by_period/chapter_v_from_egypt_to.htm"><span class="l">From Egypt to Sinai.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> To cripple and crush them there was given them hard and exhaustive tasks of<br> <b>brick</b> making under cruel task-masters. There still remains <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter v from egypt to.htm</font><p><a href="/library/chesterton/whats_wrong_with_the_world/chapter_9_there_is_let.htm"><span class="l">There Is, Let us Say, a Certain Filthy Rookery in Hoxton...</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Her therefore, runs up a row of tall bare tenements like beehives; and soon has<br> all the poor people bundled into their little <b>brick</b> cells, which are certainly <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 9 there is let.htm</font><p><a href="/library/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_12_we_would_see.htm"><span class="l">June 12. "We Would See Jesus" (John xii. 21).</span></a> <br><b>...</b> My little child came to me once and said: "Papa, look at that golden sign across<br> the street a good while; now look at that <b>brick</b> wall and tell me what you see <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /june 12 we would see.htm</font><p><a href="/library/muller/answers_to_prayer/chapter_iii_precious_answers_to.htm"><span class="l">Chapter Iii Precious Answers to Prayer</span></a> <br><b>...</b> repairing of the boiler was a questionable matter, on account of the greatness of<br> the leak; but, if not, nothing could be said of it, till the <b>brick</b>-chamber in <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../muller/answers to prayer/chapter iii precious answers to.htm</font><p><a href="/library/chrysostom/on_the_priesthood/homily_xi_thanksgiving_to_god.htm"><span class="l">Thanksgiving to God for Deliverance from the Evils Expected Owing <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Therefore also the Jews, whilst they were in bondage to work in clay and the<br> <b>brick</b>-making, when they saw Moses come to them, were not able to give heed to his <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xi thanksgiving to god.htm</font><p><a href="/library/wells/bible_stories_and_religious_classics/something.htm"><span class="l">"Something"</span></a> <br><b>...</b> The eldest brother, the brickmaker, found that every <b>brick</b> he turned out whole yielded<br> him a tiny copper coin"only copper"but a great many of these small <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../christianbookshelf.org/wells/bible stories and religious classics/something.htm</font><p><a href="/library/kingsley/the_water_of_life_and_other_sermons/sermon_xix_civilized_barbarism_preached.htm"><span class="l">Civilized Barbarism (Preached for the Bishop of London's Fund, at <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> exceptions, then not merely the society of London, and the industry of London, and<br> the wealth of London, but the very buildings of London, the <b>brick</b> and the <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../the water of life and other sermons/sermon xix civilized barbarism preached.htm</font><p><a href="/library/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_61_1915/a_new_creation.htm"><span class="l">A New Creation</span></a> <br><b>...</b> You may build a <b>brick</b> house, if you please; but, build it as you like, it will be<br> a house of <b>brick</b> upon whatever principles of architecture it may be <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 61 1915/a new creation.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/b/brick.htm"><span class="l"><b>Brick</b> (10 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2. (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as,<br> a load of <b>brick</b>; a thousand of <b>brick</b>. 3. (n.) Any oblong <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brick.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/brick-kiln.htm"><span class="l"><b>Brick</b>-kiln (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>Brick</b>-kiln. Brickkiln, <b>Brick</b>-kiln. Brickkilns . Int. Standard Bible<br> Encyclopedia <b>BRICK</b>-KILN. brik'-kil, -kiln (malben): The <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brick-kiln.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/brick-making.htm"><span class="l"><b>Brick</b>-making (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>Brick</b>-making. Brickmaking, <b>Brick</b>-making. Brickmould . Multi-Version<br> Concordance <b>Brick</b>-making (2 Occurrences). Exodus <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brick-making.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/k/kiln.htm"><span class="l">Kiln (5 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of <b>brick</b> or stone, or a heated chamber,<br> for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/k/kiln.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/brickkiln.htm"><span class="l">Brickkiln (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> receive the wood or fuel for burning them. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.<br><b>BRICK</b>-KILN. brik'-kil, -kiln (malben): The Hebrew word is <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/brickkiln.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/m/mortar.htm"><span class="l">Mortar (16 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Genesis 11:3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them<br> thoroughly." They had <b>brick</b> for stone, and they used tar for mortar. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/m/mortar.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/bed.htm"><span class="l">Bed (142 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> lower beds. 9. (n.) A course of stone or <b>brick</b> in a wall. 10. (n.) The place<br> or material in which a block or <b>brick</b> is laid. 11. (n.) The <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/bed.htm - 52k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/slime.htm"><span class="l">Slime (6 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> zepheth, "pitch" (compare Arabic zift, "pitch"), in Exodus 2:3 and Isaiah 34:9.<br> The word "slime" occurs in the following passages: "And they had <b>brick</b> for stone <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/slime.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/straw.htm"><span class="l">Straw (21 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Easton's Bible Dictionary Used in <b>brick</b>-making (Exodus 5:7-18). <b>...</b> Exodus 5:7 "You<br> shall no longer give the people straw to make <b>brick</b>, as before. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/straw.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/babylonia.htm"><span class="l">Babylonia (17 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Architecture: The architecture of Babylonia is influenced by the fact that the building<br> material, in this alluvial plain, had to be of <b>brick</b>, which was largely <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/babylonia.htm - 75k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/anthropological-hylomorphism.html">What is anthropological hylomorphism? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/pyramids-Bible.html">Are the pyramids mentioned in the Bible? Did the enslaved Israelites build the pyramids? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/stumbling-block.html">What does it mean to be a stumbling block to someone else? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/brick.htm">Brick: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Brick (10 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/11-3.htm">Genesis 11:3</a></span><br />They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Exodus 1:14</a></span><br />and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in <span class="boldtext">brick</span>, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/5-7.htm">Exodus 5:7</a></span><br />"You shall no longer give the people straw to make <span class="boldtext">brick</span>, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/5-14.htm">Exodus 5:14</a></span><br />The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making <span class="boldtext">brick</span> as before?"<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/5-16.htm">Exodus 5:16</a></span><br />No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us,'Make <span class="boldtext">brick</span>!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_samuel/12-31.htm">2 Samuel 12:31</a></span><br />He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the <span class="boldtext">brick</span> kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/65-3.htm">Isaiah 65:3</a></span><br />a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;<br /><span class="source">(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/43-9.htm">Jeremiah 43:9</a></span><br />Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the <span class="boldtext">brick</span> work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm">Ezekiel 4:1</a></span><br />And thou, son of man, take thee a <span class="boldtext">brick</span>, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, Jerusalem:<br /><span class="source">(DBY YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/nahum/3-14.htm">Nahum 3:14</a></span><br />Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. 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