Amos 3:15

God's Word

I will tear down winter houses as well as summer houses. Houses ⌞decorated⌟ with ivory will be destroyed. Mansions will be demolished, declares the Lord.

Cross References

Jeremiah 36:22

It was the ninth month, and the king was in his winter house sitting in front of the fire in the fireplace.

1 Kings 22:39

Isn’t everything else about Ahab—everything he did, the ivory palace he built, and all the cities he fortified—written in the official records of the kings of Israel?

Judges 3:20

Ehud came up to him as he sat alone in his room on the roof. He said to the king, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose from his throne,

Amos 6:11

The Lord is going to give the command to level big houses and flatten little houses.

Isaiah 5:9

With my own ears I heard the Lord of Armies say, “Many houses will become empty. Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.

Amos 3:11

This is what the Almighty Lord says: An enemy will surround your land, strip you of your defenses, and loot your palaces.

Psalm 45:8

All your robes are ⌞fragrant⌟ with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From ivory palaces the music of stringed instruments delights you.

Amos 2:5

I will send a fire on Judah and burn down the palaces of Jerusalem.

Amos 5:11

You trample on the poor and take their wheat from them for taxes. That is why you build houses from hand-cut stones, but you will not live in them. You plant beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink their wine.

Malachi 1:4

“The descendants of Esau may say, ‘We have been beaten down, but we will rebuild the ruins.’ “Yet, this is what the Lord of Armies says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called ‘the Wicked Land’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is always angry.’