Genesis 11:3

New King James Version

Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the brick works. So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage themselves in an evil matter; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, “Who will see them?”

Exodus 1:14

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

Exodus 2:3

But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity.

Isaiah 5:5

And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Isaiah 65:3

A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick;

Isaiah 9:10

“The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, But we will replace them with cedars.”

Nahum 3:14

Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!

Hebrews 10:24

And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

Hebrews 3:13

but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!