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
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.
Amos 5:23
Take the noise of your songs away from me! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
Hosea 10:5
The people who live in the city of Samaria will be afraid and will mourn the loss of the gold bull at Bethaven. They and the priests who serve the idol will weep over it. They will wail when it is stripped of its golden splendor.
Joel 1:5
Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth.
Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
Many
Amos 4:10
I sent a plague among you just as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses. I made the stench of your camp come up even into your nostrils and yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.
Isaiah 37:36
The angel of Jehovah put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. The people got up the next morning and saw all the dead bodies!
Jeremiah 9:21
Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.
Nahum 3:3
The horseman is mounting. There is the flashing sword and the glittering spear! The multitudes of slain ones produce a great heap of corpses. There is no end of the bodies! They stumble upon their bodies.
They shall
Amos 6:9
It will happen! If there remain ten men in one house, they will die.
Jeremiah 22:18
Therefore Jehovah tells us about Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not cry for him: 'Alas, my brother!' And, 'Alas, sister!' They will not mourn him: 'Alas for the master!' And, Alas for his splendor!
With silence
Leviticus 10:3
Moses said to Aaron: This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: 'All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.' But Aaron remained silent.
Psalm 39:9
I remained speechless. I did not open my mouth because you have done this.
General references
Isaiah 24:9
They no longer drink wine with a song. The beverage is bitter to its drinkers.