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.
Could not
An ark
With slime
Bible References
Could not
Exodus 1:22
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live."
Matthew 2:13
After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him."
Acts 7:19
This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
An ark
Isaiah 18:2
that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water's surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.
With slime
Genesis 6:14
Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.
Genesis 11:3
Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.