Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Bible References

Rebuketh

Job 38:11

And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
Psalm 104:7

At Your rebuke they fled;
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
Psalm 106:9

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.
Psalm 114:3

The [Red] Sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.
Isaiah 50:2

“Why, when I came, was there no man [to greet Me]?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is My hand really so short that it cannot redeem [My servants]?
Or have I no power to rescue?
Listen carefully, with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers into a desert;
Their fish stink because there is no water
And die of thirst.
Isaiah 51:10

Was it not You who dried up the [Red] Sea,
The waters of the great deep,
Who made the depths of the sea a pathway
For the redeemed to cross over?
Amos 5:8

He who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion,
Who turns deep darkness into the morning
And darkens the day into night,
Who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The Lord is His name.
Matthew 8:26
He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was [at once] a great and wonderful calm [a perfect peacefulness].

And drieth

Joshua 3:13
When the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, [come to] rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan flowing down from above will be cut off, and they will stand in one mass [of water].”
Psalm 74:15

You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
Isaiah 19:5

The waters from the sea will dry up,
And the river will be parched and dry.
Isaiah 44:27

“It is I who says to the deep, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.
Ezekiel 30:12

“And I will make the rivers [of the Nile delta] dry
And sell the land into the hands of evil men;
I will make the land desolate
And all that is in it,
By the hand of strangers. I the Lord have spoken.”

Bashan

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and dries out,
Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;
Sharon is like a desert plain,
And Bashan and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves.
Amos 1:2

And he said,
“The Lord thunders and roars from Zion [in judgment]
And utters His voice from Jerusalem;
Then the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
And the summit of [Mount] Carmel dries up [because of God’s judgment].”

General references

Psalm 89:9

You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.
Isaiah 42:15

“I will lay waste the mountains and hills
And wither all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into coastlands
And dry up the ponds.
Jeremiah 23:19

“Behold, the tempest of the Lord has gone forth in wrath,
A whirling tempest;
It will whirl and burst on the heads of the wicked.