who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The
The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my po
Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to com