Jeremiah 22:14 Cross References - ACV

¹⁴ who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts out windows for himself, and it is overlaid with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

² that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.

⁵ And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains.

¹⁹ He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction.

²⁷ Prepare thy work outside, and make it ready for thee in the field, and afterwards build thy house.

¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedars, our rafters are firs.

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! ⁹ In my ears says LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

⁹ And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

⁴ Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies waste?

⁴ Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places, thus says LORD of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down, and men shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom LORD has indignation forever.

²⁸ For which of you wanting to build a tower, does not, having first sat down, count the cost whether he has the things for completion? ²⁹ So that perhaps, having laid its foundation, and not being able to finish, all those who see begin to ridicule him,