Amos 3:15 meaning and explanation

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

Amos 3:15, Berean Standard Bible

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Amos 3:15 closes a chapter in which God announces judgment on Israel, the people he had brought out of Egypt. Speaking through Amos to wealthy Samaria, God names the luxury that exposed their injustice: separate winter and summer houses, homes decorated with ivory, and great estates.

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