Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Ye looked
Blow upon it
Why
General references
Bible References
Ye looked
Haggai 1:6
Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye are not filled; ye drink, but ye are not satisfied; ye clothe yourselves, but you are not warm; and he that is a hireling receives his wages in a bag with holes.
Haggai 2:16
since these things were: when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the pressfat to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
Isaiah 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saving health and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength; therefore thou shalt plant pleasant plants and set it with strange slips:
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In the tithes and the offerings.
Blow upon it
2 Samuel 22:16
Then the springs of the sea appeared and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
2 Kings 19:7
Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumour and shall return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers, the flower fades because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people is grass.
Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, said the LORD of the hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already because ye do not lay it to heart.
Why
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.
Psalm 77:5
I have considered the days from the beginning, the years of the ages.
General references
Leviticus 19:25
And in the fifth year ye shall eat of the fruit thereof that it may yield unto you the increase thereof. I AM your God.
Proverbs 3:9
Honour the LORD with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Malachi 3:9
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye, even this whole nation, have robbed me.