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I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says the LORD.
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Verse 15. Winter. Septuagint “winged house,” to keep off cold, (Saint Jerome) or to give air. Calmet.—Summer-house. The noblemen had such is cooler regions. Menochius.—The kings of Persia passed the summer at Ecbatana. Xen. Cyr. viii.—Palladius (1:12) orders that the summer apartments must look to the north.—Ivory. Many ornaments of this nature appeared in them, ( Calmet.) whence Achab’s palace was so called. 3 Kennicott. 22:39. Bible.
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