And I will smite the winter house with the summer house - Upon idolatry, there follow luxury and pride. “So wealthy were they,” say…

Houses. —It is uncertain whether by “winter and summer houses” are meant two classes of royal abodes, or different chambers of the…

Amos shows again that the great people trusted in vain in their wealth and fortified places, because these could not hinder God from bringing them …

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house
Both the one and, the other shall fall to the ground, being …

That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness will justly be brought down and broken. What is obtained and kept wrongfully will not be kept …