Amos 3:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I will tear down the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end, says the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:39

Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the ivory house that he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Annals 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

Now the king was sitting in his winter apartment (it was the ninth month), and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.

Amos 2:5

So I will send a fire on 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 strip you of your defense, and your strongholds shall be plundered.

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Amos 6:11

For the Lord commands, and he will shatter the great house to bits and the little house to pieces.

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, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.

Judges 3:20

Ehud came to him, while he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber, and said, “I have a message from God for you.” So he rose from his seat.