Ecclesiastes 2:4

4I made great works. I abuilt houses and planted bvineyards for myself.

Jeremiah 22:14-15

14who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and cpainting it with vermilion.
15Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and ddo justice and righteousness?
eThen it was well with him.

Ezekiel 11:3

3 fwho say, g‘The time is not near
Or Is not the time near . . . ?
to build houses. iThis city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

Amos 5:11

11Therefore because you jtrample on
Or  you tax
the poor
and you exact taxes of grain from him,
lyou have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not dwell in them;
myou have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.

Haggai 1:4

4 n“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while othis house lies in ruins?

Luke 17:28

28Likewise, just as it was in the days of pLot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
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