Bible Dictionary: Fire in Houses: Made of Charcoal

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

John 18:18
And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Of Removing Tithes.
... copper or other ore, clay, turf used for fire, flags, marle ... trees are employed to
build houses; and houses, when built ... Tithe is due of wood made into charcoal. ...
/.../prideaux/directions to church-wardens/8 of removing tithes.htm

Peter Thrice Denies the Lord.
... It is still customary to have female porters at the houses of the great ... 18 Now the
servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cxxvii peter thrice denies the.htm

The Trial Before the High Priest.
... As we learn from Mark 14:66, the fire was made in the court, the ... The court within,
which was a common feature of great houses, was paved ... The fire was of charcoal ...
/.../johnson/the new testament commentary vol iii john/the trial before the high.htm

The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... body is so; and how far the unquenchable fire may also ... you [that is, the friends
whom ye have made by bestowing ... they may receive me into their houses." They do ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

"He Has Trusted Me," Said the Cardinal, -- "I have Found Him...
... WILL bring Fabien Doucet to Monseigneur;"they have made up their ... might just as well
light up a charcoal fire, shut all ... to build one of the new houses on the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/corelli/the master-christian/v he has trusted me.htm

Naparima and Montserrat
... At the famous sacred Fire wells of Baku, in the Eastern ... Behind the houses, among
the stumps of huge trees, maize ... not lived in vain; for we have made this out ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter x naparima and montserrat.htm

Christian Cemeteries.
... the basilica and its portico, after the fire of 1823 ... fair to say that the discoveries
made in this ... which they belonged, but to ornament houses, museums, villas ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter vii christian cemeteries.htm

The Political Constitution of Egypt
... Herodotus had already made us familiar with the dreams of ... once aroused, became an
all-consuming fire; the Egyptians ... in the palace, as in the houses of private ...
/.../chapter ithe political constitution of.htm

The Cocal
... comfortable house, only just rebuilt after a fire, stood among ... it the barns, sheds,
and engine-houses of the ... into that brown fibre of which matting is made. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xiii the cocal.htm

Ancient Chaldaea
... four "houses," each of which, like the "houses" of Egypt ... kept secret and hidden,
he had even made known to ... identity of Gilgames with the Accadian fire-god, or ...
/.../chapter iancient chaldaea.htm