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
The great
General references
Bible References
The winter
Jeremiah 36:22
Now the king [was] sitting [in] the quarters of the winter in the ninth month, and a fire-pot [was] burning {before} him.
The summer
Judges 3:20
and Ehud came to him [while] he [was] sitting alone in his cool upper room. And Ehud said, "I have a {message from God} for you." So he got up from his seat.
The houses
1 Kings 22:39
The remainder of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory palace and all the cities that he built, [are] they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?
The great
Amos 3:11
Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "A foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered."
Amos 6:11
Look, Yahweh [is] going to command and the great house will be destroyed [to] bits and the little house [to] pieces.
Isaiah 5:9
Yahweh of hosts [said] in my ears: {Surely} many houses shall become a desolation, large and beautiful [ones] without inhabitant.
General references
Isaiah 17:9
On that day, {its fortified cities} will be like the {abandonment of the wooded place and the summit}, which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.