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 are of precious stone, according to the measures of hewn work, sawn with a saw, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and at the outside, unto the great court.
1 Kings 10:27
And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made as the sycamores that are in the low country, for abundance.
Malachi 1:4
Because Edom saith, 'We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And men have called to them, 'O region of wickedness,' 'O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'
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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.