Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Bricks
General references
Bible References
Bricks
1 Kings 7:9
All these were of expensive stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
1 Kings 10:27
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
Malachi 1:4
Though [impoverished] Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins.” Thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the Wicked Territory, the people against whom the Lord is indignant forever.”
General references
Isaiah 17:9
In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be likedeserted places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.
In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like
Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.