Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

An ark

Bible References

Could not

Exodus 1:22
Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "All the men children that are born, cast into the river; and save the maid children alive."
Matthew 2:13
When they were departed, Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying,. "Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt, and abide there till I bring thee word: For Herod will seek the child to destroy him."
Acts 7:19
The same dealt subtly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their young children, that they should not remain alive.

An ark

Isaiah 18:2
which sendeth her message over the sea in ships of reeds upon the water. Get ye hence, ye speedy messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and robbed of that they had: a fearful nation from their beginning hitherto; a nation trodden down by little and little, whose land the floods have spoiled.

With slime

Genesis 6:14
Make thee an ark of pine tree, and make chambers in the ark, and pitch it, within and without, with pitch.
Genesis 11:3
And they said, one to another, "Come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire." So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar.
Genesis 14:10
And that vale of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains.