Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Bible References

Wise

Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom a house shall be builded, and with understanding it shall be set up.
Proverbs 31:10
Whoso findeth a honest faithful woman, she is much more worth than pearls.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said "We are witnesses: the LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and Lea, which twain did build the house of Israel: that she may do virtuously in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem,

The foolish

Proverbs 9:13
A foolish restless woman, full of words, and such one as hath no knowledge,
Proverbs 19:13
An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
1 Kings 16:31
For it seemed him a light thing to walk in the sin of Jeroboam - But took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians to wife, and went and served Baal and bowed unto him.
1 Kings 21:24
And he that dieth of Ahab in the town, him shall dogs eat: and he that dieth in the fields, him shall the fowls of the air eat."
2 Kings 11:1
And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw that her son was dead, she arose and slew all the seed of the king.

General references

Exodus 35:25
And all the women that were wise hearted to work with their hands, span; and brought the spun work, both of jacinth, scarlet, purple and bysse.
Proverbs 31:27
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not her bread with idleness.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.