Amos 3:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end,” says the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish and the many and great houses shall come to an end, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ I will tear down the winter house as well as the summer house; the houses of ivory will perish; the great houses will be swept away, says the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and many buildings will be torn apart, says the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.

Amos 3:15 Cross References

1 Kings 22:39

Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

Psalm 45:8

your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 36:22

It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.

Amos 2:5

So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

Amos 3:11

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “An adversary shall surround the land, and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 6:11

For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be smitten into fragments, and the little house into bits.

Malachi 1:4

If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, till they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.”

Judges 3:20

And Ehud came to him, as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from his seat.