Jeremiah 22:14
He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.
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- 2 Sam 7:2 : 2 The king said to Nathan the prophet,“Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”
- Isa 5:8-9 : 8 Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. 9 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.
- Hag 1:4 : 4 “Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?
- Mal 1:4 : 4 Edom says,“Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places.” So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies responds,“They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as the land of evil, the people with whom the LORD is permanently displeased.
- Luke 14:28-29 : 28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.
- Isa 9:9 : 9 All the people were aware of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said,
- Dan 4:30 : 30 The king uttered these words:“Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?”
- 2 Chr 3:5 : 5 He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.
- Prov 17:19 : 19 The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction.
- Prov 24:27 : 27 Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.
- Song 1:17 : 17 the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
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13Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
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15Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.
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9to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.
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9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.
10Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.
11For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.
12Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed– he who starts a town by unjust deeds.
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4Futility of Materialism I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
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18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
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5He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.
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9He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.
10He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.
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19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
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15He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.
16He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.
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14with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
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15I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away.” The LORD is speaking!
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18Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
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8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.
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16‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.
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6The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’
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24you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.
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15I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you,“The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more–
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5So I have decided to build a temple to honor the LORD my God, as the LORD instructed my father David,‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’
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1David’s Prestige Grows King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters to build a palace for him.
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11Indeed, look! The LORD is giving the command. He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.
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11Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.
12When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”
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4He made framed windows for the temple.
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18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.
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16as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows(now the windows were covered),
17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.
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12He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent.
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31When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.
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6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.
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6Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him.
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18The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.
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9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.
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21As for this temple, which was once majestic, everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say,‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?’
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13A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine.
14He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.
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3By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;
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17the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
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30They will say,‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’
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15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
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18But it was he who filled their houses with good things– yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.
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6“‘For the LORD says concerning the palace of the king of Judah,“This place looks like a veritable forest of Gilead to me. It is like the wooded heights of Lebanon in my eyes. But I swear that I will make it like a wilderness whose towns have all been deserted.
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8If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.