aSee 1 Kgs. 7:1-12
Ecclesiastes 2:4
4I made great works. I abuilt houses and planted bvineyards for myself.Jeremiah 22:14-15
14who says, ‘I will build myself a great housewith spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and cpainting it with vermilion.
15Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and ddo justice and righteousness?
eThen it was well with him.
Ezekiel 11:3
3 fwho say, g‘The time is not near ▼▼Or Is not the time near . . . ?
to build houses. iThis city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’ Amos 5:11
11Therefore because you jtrample on ▼▼Or you tax
the poorand you exact taxes of grain from him,
lyou have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not dwell in them;
myou have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
Haggai 1:4
4 n“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while othis house lies in ruins?Luke 17:28
28Likewise, just as it was in the days of pLot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
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