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 me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Jeremiah 3:20
"Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says Yahweh.
Amos 3:15
I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh.