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 buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.
1 Kings 10:27
And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
Malachi 1:4
Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
General references
Isaiah 17:9
In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.