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 sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

The summer

Judges 3:20
And Ehud came unto him, and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a word from God unto thee. Then he arose out of his seat.

The houses

1 Kings 22:39
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made 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 said the Lord GOD: An adversary there shall be even round about the land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Amos 6:11
For, behold, the LORD shall command, and he will smite the great house with breaches and the little house with clefts.
Isaiah 5:9
In my ears, the LORD of the hosts said, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
In that day the cities of his strength shall be as the gleanings which remain on the shoots and on the branches, which were left of the sons of Israel; and there shall be desolation.