Amos 3:15

Easy To Read Version

I will destroy the winter house with the summer house. The houses of ivory will be destroyed. Many houses will be destroyed.” The Lord said those things.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:39

All the things that King Ahab did during the time he ruled are written in the book The History of the Kings of Israel. And that book also tells about the ivory that the king used to make his palace [231] more beautiful. And the book tells about the city that the king built.

Psalm 45:8

Your clothes smell like the sweet spices\par myrrh, aloes, and cassia.\par From here in palaces decorated with ivory,\par comes music to entertain you.\par

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord All-Powerful said this to me, and I heard him, “There are many houses now. But I promise that all the houses will be destroyed. There are nice, big houses now. But those houses will be empty.

Jeremiah 36:22

The time this happened was in the ninth month, {\cf2\super [312]} so King Jehoiakim was sitting in the winter apartment. There was a fire burning in a small fireplace in front of the king.

Amos 2:5

So I will start a fire in Judah. And that fire will destroy the high towers of Jerusalem.”

Amos 3:11

So the Lord says, “An enemy will come to that land. That enemy will take away your strength. He will take the things you hid in your high towers.”

Amos 5:11

You take unfair taxes {\cf2\super [69]} from poor people.\par You take loads of wheat from them.\par You build fancy houses with cut stone.\par But you will not live in those houses.\par You plant beautiful fields of grapes.\par But you will not drink the wine from them.\par

Amos 6:11

Look, the Lord God will give the command,\par and the large houses\par will be broken to pieces,\par and the small houses\par will be broken to small pieces.\par

Malachi 1:4

Maybe the people of Edom will say, “We were destroyed. But we will go back and build our cities again.”

Judges 3:20

So the Lord became angry with the people of Israel, and he said, “This nation has broken the Agreement that I made with their ancestors. [21] They have not listened to me.