Amos 3:15
“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.”
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth–el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
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.
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“Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.”
“Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?”
“Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.”
“For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.”
“For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.”