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
Woe to him who says: 'I will build myself a roomy house with spacious upper rooms, and cut out its windows. I will panel it with cedar and paint it bright red (vermilion).'
Jeremiah 3:20
But like a wife who is unfaithful to her husband, so you, O house of Israel, were unfaithful me, says Jehovah.
Amos 3:15
I will strike (destroy) the winter house and the summer house. The houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will come to an end, said Jehovah.