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
You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Haggai 2:16
Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the winepress to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
Isaiah 17:10
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with imported seedlings:
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
Blow upon it
2 Samuel 22:16
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, 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 rumor, 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 breath of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people are grass.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
Why
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
Psalm 77:5
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
General references
Leviticus 19:25
And in the fifth year shall you eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you its increase: I am the LORD your God.
Proverbs 3:9
Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase:
Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.