Lexicon :: Strong's G456 - anoikodomeō

“You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn the city and all its spoil for the LORD your God. The city is to remain a mound of ruins forever; it is not to be rebuilt.

Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, duty, or land tax, and the royal revenue[fn] will suffer.

So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.

and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor with you, send me to Judah and to the city where my ancestors are buried,[fn] so that I may rebuild it.”

Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field;

afterward, build your house.

See, I have appointed you today

over nations and kingdoms

to uproot and tear down,

to destroy and demolish,

to build and plant.

“At another time I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it.

“I will keep my eyes on them for their good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not demolish them; I will plant them and not uproot them.

He has laid siege against me,

encircling me with bitterness and hardship.

He has walled me in so I cannot get out;

he has weighed me down with chains.

He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone;

he has made my paths crooked.

Therefore, this is what I will do:

I will block her[fn] way with thorns;

I will enclose her with a wall,

so that she cannot find her paths.

In that day

I will restore the fallen shelter of David:

I will repair its gaps,

restore its ruins,

and rebuild it as in the days of old,

Don’t announce it in Gath,

don’t weep at all.

Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

“Therefore, this is what the LORD says: In mercy, I have returned to Jerusalem; my house will be rebuilt within it ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.

Though Edom says, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild[fn] the ruins,” the LORD of Armies says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the LORD has cursed[fn] forever.

“So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.”