Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Bible References

I will

Proverbs 17:19
He who loves transgression loves strife;
He who raises his door seeks destruction.
Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work outside
And make it ready for yourself in the field;
Afterwards, then, build your house.
Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
Isaiah 9:9
And all the people know it,
That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:
Daniel 4:30
The king reflected and said, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?’
Malachi 1:4
Though 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, and the people toward whom the Lord is indignant forever.”
Luke 14:28
For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

Ceiled with cedar

2 Samuel 7:2
that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.”
2 Chronicles 3:5
He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
Song of Songs 1:17
“The beams of our houses are cedars,
Our rafters, cypresses.
Haggai 1:4
“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?”