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.

General references

Bible References

Bricks

1 Kings 7:9
All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard.
1 Kings 10:27
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.
Malachi 1:4
Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed forever.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
On that day their strong cities will be
like the abandoned woods and mountaintops
that were abandoned because of the Israelites;
there will be desolation.

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