Jeremiah 22:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2

The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

2 Chronicles 3:5

And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

Proverbs 17:19

The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

Proverbs 24:27

Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

Song of Solomon 1:17

Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

Isaiah 9:9

And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,

Ezekiel 23:14

And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

Daniel 4:30

The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.

Haggai 1:4

Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

Malachi 1:4

Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.