Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
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General references
Bible References
Betroth
Deuteronomy 20:6
And who has planted a vineyard and has not yet eaten of it? Let him also go and return unto his house lest peradventure he die in the battle and another man eat of it.
Job 31:10
then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives unto others and their fields unto those that shall inherit them: for each one from the least even unto the greatest is given to greed; from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
Hosea 4:2
By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.
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Job 3:18
There the prisoners rest together, they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Isaiah 5:9
In my ears, the LORD of the hosts said, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 65:21
And they shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown bread, but shall reap thorns; they had the heritage, but they did not profit; and they shall be ashamed because of your fruits, by the fierce anger of the LORD.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Micah 6:15
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with the oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink the wine.
Zephaniah 1:13
Therefore their goods shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
General references
Ecclesiastes 3:13
And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour; it is the gift of God.
Isaiah 65:21
And they shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.