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.
The songs
They shall
With silence
General references
Bible References
The songs
Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.
Amos 5:23
Remove from me the noise of your songs, and I do not want to hear the melody of your harps!
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wail over it-- over its glory because it has departed from it.
Joel 1:5
Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire will devour your cedars!
Many
Amos 4:10
"I sent among you a plague in the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with the captivity of your horses. And I made the stench of your camps go up into your nostrils, yet you did not return to me," [is] the declaration of Yahweh.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When they rose in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses.
Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off [the] children from [the] streets, [the] young men from [the] public squares.
Nahum 3:3
Chariots charge! Swords flash! Spears glitter! {Many corpses are piled high}! There is no end to the slain! They stumble over their dead!
They shall
Amos 6:9
And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die.
Jeremiah 22:18
{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: "They will not lament for him, 'Alas, my brother,' or 'Alas, sister.' They will not lament for him, 'Alas, lord,' or 'alas, his majesty.'
With silence
Leviticus 10:3
Therefore Moses said to Aaron, "This [is] what Yahweh spoke, saying, 'Among those who are close to me I will show myself holy, and {in the presence of} all the people I will display my glory.'" So Aaron was silent.
Psalm 39:9
I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done [it].
General references
Isaiah 24:9
They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.