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 winter house 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 chamber, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto you. And 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 says the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even all around the land; and he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.
Amos 6:11
For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into bits.
Isaiah 5:9
In my hearing said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.