Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
General references
Bible References
Wise
Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom is a house builded; And by understanding it is established;
Proverbs 31:10
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
The foolish
Proverbs 9:13
The foolish woman is clamorous;'she is'simple, and knoweth nothing.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
1 Kings 16:31
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Kings 21:24
Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.
2 Kings 11:1
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
General references
Exodus 35:25
And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
Proverbs 31:27
She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.