Jeremiah 22:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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  • 2 Sam 7:2 : 2 That the king said to Nathan the prophet, Look now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.
  • Isa 5:8-9 : 8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.
  • Hag 1:4 : 4 Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?
  • Mal 1:4 : 4 Though Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.
  • Luke 14:28-29 : 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it? 29 Lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him,
  • Isa 9:9 : 9 And all the people will know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in the pride and stubbornness of heart,
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?
  • 2 Chr 3:5 : 5 And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
  • Prov 17:19 : 19 He who loves transgression loves strife, and he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.
  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Prepare your work outside, and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward build your house.
  • Song 1:17 : 17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

  • 15Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

  • 9To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.

  • Hab 2:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

    10You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.

    11For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.

    12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

  • 4I made great works; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

  • 18He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

  • 5And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9So he built the house and finished it, and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

    10And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high, and they were supported by cedar timbers.

  • 19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build;

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    15And he built the walls of the house inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling; he covered them on the inside with wood and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

    16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with cedar boards; he even built it inside for the oracle, for the most holy place.

  • 14With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;

  • 11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • 15And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end, says the LORD.

  • 18And he said, This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my crops and my goods.

  • 8Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

  • 16What have you here? And whom have you here, that you have hewn a sepulcher here, as he who hews himself a sepulcher on high, who carves a dwelling for himself in a rock?

  • 6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his! How long? And to him who loads himself with thick clay!

  • 24That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street.

  • 15Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon those who daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say to you, 'The wall is no more, nor are those who daubed it.'

  • 5And behold, I plan to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build a house for my name.

  • 1Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar timber, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

  • 11For behold, the LORD commands, and He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

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    11Say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

    12Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?'

  • 4And for the house he made windows with narrow lights.

  • 18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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    16The doorposts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around their three stories, opposite the door, paneled with wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

    17To that above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

  • 12He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

  • 31In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;

  • 6To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the house.

  • 6But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except only to burn sacrifice before him?

  • 18And the cedar inside the house was carved with gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen.

  • 9In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

  • 21And this house, which is exalted, shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it; so that they will say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?

  • Isa 44:13-14
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    13The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

    14He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

  • 3By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established.

  • 17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

  • 5And David said, Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all nations: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

  • 30Saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

  • 15He shall lean on his house, but it will not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it will not endure.

  • 18Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 6For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

  • 8When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house if any man falls from it.