Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
General references
Bible References
Wise
Proverbs 24:3 By wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;
And by understanding it is established;
Proverbs 31:10 An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is farabove jewels.
For her worth is far
Ruth 4:11
All the people who were in the court, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and may you achieve wealth in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.
The foolish
Proverbs 9:13 The woman of folly is boisterous,
She isnaive and knows nothing.
She is
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is destruction to his father,
And thecontentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
And the
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live in a corner of a roof
Thanin a house shared with a contentious woman.
Than
1 Kings 16:31
It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.
1 Kings 21:24 The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat.”
2 Kings 11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
General references
Exodus 35:25
All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.
Proverbs 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household,
And does not eat thebread of idleness.
And does not eat the
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.