2 Kings 21:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

I will stretch

Zechariah 1:16

The plummet

2 Kings 10:11

1 Kings 21:21

I will wipe

Revelation 18:21

General references

Ezekiel 7:5

Bible References

I will stretch

For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

“I will make justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies
And the waters will overflow the secret place.

But

pelican and hedgehog will possess it,

And owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.

The Lord

determined to destroy

The wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out a line,
He has not restrained His hand from destroying,
And He has caused rampart and wall to lament;
They have languished together.

You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’

Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.

Therefore thus says the Lord, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’

The plummet

So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.

Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, both bond and free in Israel;

I will wipe

therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

“I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

“Heap on the wood, kindle the fire,

Boil the flesh well

And mix in the spices,
And let the bones be burned.

Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.

General references

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!