Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 3:15

15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house , and the houses of ivory shall perish , and the great houses shall have an end , saith the LORD.

By the greatness of the desolation it shall appear that God did smite though by the Assyrian; or perhaps it may refer to the Earthquake foretold two years before it came, cap. 1. ver. 1. let. m.

Which probably was in the chief City, where the rich and great men retired in the Winter time as more for their delight than the Country horrid and cold, and stript of its Glory.

The houses of pleasure, where the Nobles and rich men of Israel spent the summer time.

Not built with, but beautifyed with Ivory, or the Elephants Tooth called here, and elsewhere by way of eminency the Tooth.

By the violence of the Enemies, these stately houses shall be ransackt first, and pull'd down next, and left in rubbish:

Or many, for the word includes both. The Magnificent Palaces of Princes, and the Nobles of Israel

shall cease for ever either be utterly wasted, or cease to be theirs whose once they were.

All this shall infallibly come to pass, and be fulfilled in due time.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span] Jer. [illegible: 1 span]; 1 [illegible: 1 span]