Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

A warm apartment suited to the season of the year, (december, when snow is often upon the ground in palestine,) in which was a pan or brazier (ach, or ikhkh, as it is pronounced in arabic) of burning charcoal; for we learn from bp

Bible References

A warm apartment suited to the season of the year, (december, when snow is often upon the ground in palestine,) in which was a pan or brazier (ach, or ikhkh, as it is pronounced in arabic) of burning charcoal; for we learn from bp

Jeremiah 22:14

Who says, ‘I will build myself a spacious house
With large upper rooms,
And cut out its [wide] windows,
And panel it with cedar and paint it vermilion.’
Jeremiah 3:20

“Surely, as a wife treacherously (unfaithfully) leaves her husband,
So you have dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” says the Lord.
Amos 3:15

“And I shall tear down the winter house with the summer house;
And the houses of ivory shall also perish
And the great houses shall come to an end,”
Says the Lord.