Amos 3:15
And I will smite bthe winter house with the summer house; and cthe houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
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.
b:
Jeremiah 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Judges 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
c:
1 Kings 22:39 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?
by the greatness of the desolation it shall appear that God did smite, though by the Assyrian; or perhaps it may refer to the earthquake foretold two years before it came, Amo 1:1.
which probably was in the chief city, where the rich and great men retired in the winter time, as more for their delight than the country, horrid and cold, and stripped of its glory.
the houses of pleasure, where the nobles and rich men of Israel spent the summer time.
not built with, but beautified with ivory, or the elephant’s tooth, called here and elsewhere, by way of eminency, the tooth.
by the violence of the enemies, these stately houses shall be ransacked first, and pulled down next, and left in rubbish.
or many, for the word includes both. The magnificent palaces of princes and the nobles of Israel
shall cease for ever, either be utterly wasted, or cease to be theirs whose once they were.
all this shall infallibly come to pass and be fulfilled in due time.