Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
In the city
In the field
General references
Bible References
In the city
Psalm 107:36
And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;
Psalm 128:1
Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.
Isaiah 65:21
And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
Zechariah 8:3
This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.
In the field
Genesis 26:12
Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
Genesis 39:5
And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.
Amos 9:13
See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.
Haggai 2:19
Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
Malachi 3:10
Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
General references
Mark 10:16
And he took them in his arms, and gave them a blessing, putting his hands on them.