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 of these [were] of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw {on all sides}; from [the] foundation up to the eaves and from [the] outside up to the great courtyard.
1 Kings 10:27
The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance.
Malachi 1:4
If Edom says, "We are shattered, but we will return and rebuild [the] ruins," Yahweh of hosts says this: "They may build, but I will tear down; and they will be called a territory of wickedness, and the people [with] whom Yahweh is angry forever."
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.