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
and the king is sitting in the winter-house, in the ninth month, and the stove before him is burning,

The summer

Judges 3:20
And Ehud hath come unto him, and he is sitting in the upper chamber of the wall which he hath for himself, and Ehud saith, 'A word of God I have unto thee;' and he riseth from off the throne;

The houses

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

The great

Amos 3:11
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: An adversary -- and surrounding the land, And he hath brought down from thee thy strength, And spoiled have been thy palaces.
Amos 6:11
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house with breaches, And the little house with clefts.
Isaiah 5:9
By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

General references

Isaiah 17:9
In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.