Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

Bible References

It is furbished

Jeremiah 46:4
Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.
Nahum 3:3
Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:
Habakkuk 3:11
At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

Should

Esther 3:15
The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.
Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
Isaiah 5:12
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Amos 6:3
You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;
Nahum 1:10
For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
Luke 21:34
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

It contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree

Ezekiel 21:25
And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the last punishment;
Ezekiel 19:11
And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
Ezekiel 20:47
And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;
Psalm 2:7
I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.
Psalm 89:26
He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
Revelation 2:27
And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain