Amos 3:15

I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says the LORD.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

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Cross References

Judges 3:20Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

Psalms 45:8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

Jeremiah 36:22Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.

Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Matthew Henry on Amos 3:10-15

Israel Convicted and Condemned. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord , who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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