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Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Clay brick inscribed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604-562 BCE, from Babylon, Iraq. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany.

 

Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Roaring lion from the Throne Room of Nebuchadnezzar II from Babylon, Iraq. 6th century BCE. Lions of the Throne Room display concave-upward tails. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany.

 

Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art

License: CC0 1.0

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Model Brick Mold from the Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Tomb

 

From Easton Bricks: the making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 1:13, Exodus 1:14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dried in the sun, though also sometimes in kilns (2 Samuel 12:31; Jeremiah 43:9; Nahum 3:14). (See NEBUCHADNEZZAR)

The bricks used in the tower of Babel were burnt bricks, cemented in the building by bitumen (Genesis 11:3).

Verses:

  • Genesis 11:3
  • Exodus 1:14
  • Exodus 5:7
  • Exodus 5:8
  • Exodus 5:14
  • Exodus 5:16
  • Exodus 5:18
  • Exodus 5:19
  • 2 Samuel 12:31
  • Isaiah 9:10
  • Isaiah 65:3
  • Jeremiah 43:9
  • Nahum 3:14
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​b/brick.html. 2024.
 
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