Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

With silence

General references

Bible References

The songs

Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head, and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a b
Amos 5:23
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven. For the people of it shall mourn over it, and the priests of it, who rejoiced over it for the glory of it, because it has departed from it.
Joel 1:5
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
Zechariah 11:1
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Many

Amos 4:10
I have sent among you the pestilence according to the manner of Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses, and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils. Yet y
Isaiah 37:36
And the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.
Nahum 3:3
the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble upon their bodies,

They shall

Amos 6:9
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Jeremiah 22:18
Therefore thus says LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. They shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

With silence

Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in those who come near me. And I will be glorified before all the people. And Aaron remained silent.
Psalm 39:9
I was mute. I opened not my mouth, because thou did it.

General references

Isaiah 24:9
They shall not drink wine with a song. Strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.