Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

The grass

Bible References

Of small power

Numbers 11:23
The Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not.”
Numbers 14:9
Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”
Psalm 48:4
For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,
They passed by together.
Psalm 127:1
A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Jeremiah 37:10
For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”
Jeremiah 50:36
“A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools!
A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!
Jeremiah 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They stay in the strongholds;
Their strength is exhausted,
They are becoming like women;
Their dwelling places are set on fire,
The bars of her gates are broken.

They were

Psalm 92:7
That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a lengthened shadow,
And I wither away like grass.
Isaiah 40:6
A voice says, “Call out.”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
James 1:10
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For,
All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,

The grass

Psalm 129:6
Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;