Acts 14:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

He left

Acts 17:27

Psalm 19:1

Romans 1:19

In that

And gave

Filling

General references

Isaiah 40:21

James 5:18

Bible References

He left

So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:

The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

In that

Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.

Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

And gave

Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.

Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music.

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

Filling

And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

General references

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.