Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

The winter

The summer

The houses

General references

Bible References

The winter

Jeremiah 36:22
Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month, and with the fire-pan burning before him.

The summer

Judges 3:20
And Ehud came to him, as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat.

The houses

1 Kings 22:39
And the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

The great

Amos 3:11
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary! even round about the land! And he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be pillaged.
Amos 6:11
For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Isaiah 5:9
In mine ears Jehovah of hosts hath said, Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.