15And 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 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.
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The Israelites are here again convicted and condemned, and particular notice given of the crimes they are convicted of and the punishment they are condemned to. 1. Notice is given of it to their neighbours. The prophet is ordered to publish it in the palaces of Ashdod , one of the chief cities of the Philistines; nay, the summons must go further, even to the palaces in the land of Egypt . “The gre…
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