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Bible Verses About Palaces

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  1. Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

  2. And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

  3. To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.

  4. The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings' houses.

  5. If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.

  6. And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.

  7. For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.

  8. And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.

  9. For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

  10. But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

  11. He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

  12. And the king spoke to Asphenez, the master of the eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes,

  13. Children in whom there was no blemish, well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, acute in knowledge, and instructed in science, and such as might stand in the king's palace, that he might teach them the learning, and tongue of the Chaldeans.

  14. And the king appointed them a daily provision, of his own meat, and of the wine of which he drank himself, that being nourished three years, afterwards they might stand before the king.

  15. Then came in the diviners, the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and I told the dream before them: but they did not shew me the interpretation thereof.

  16. And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

  17. Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof.

  18. And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

  19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: The land shall be in tribulation, and shall be compassed about: and thy strength shall be taken away from thee, and thy houses shall be spoiled.

  20. And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

  21. And Peter followed him afar off, even to the court of the high priest, And going in, he sat with the servants, that he might see the end.

  22. But what went you out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are in costly apparel and live delicately are in the houses of kings.

  23. When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace which he possesseth.