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 sow much, but ye bring little in; Ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled; ye deck yourselves, but ye are not warm; and he that earneth any wage, putteth it in a broken purse.
Haggai 2:16
that when ye came to a corn heap of twenty bushels, there were scarce ten: and that when ye came to the wine press for to pour out fifty pots of wine, there were scarce twenty.
Isaiah 17:10
So shalt thou, O Damascus, be desolate: because thou hast forgotten God thy Saviour, and hast not called to remembrance the rock of thy strength. Wherefore thou hast also set a fair plant, and grafted a strange branch.
Malachi 3:8
Should a man use falsity and deceit with God, as ye use falsity and deceit with me? Yet ye say, 'Wherein use we deceit with thee?' In tithes and heave offerings.
Blow upon it
2 Samuel 22:16
And the bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by the reason of the rebuking of the LORD, and through the blasting of the breath of his nostrils.
2 Kings 19:7
For I will send him a blast that he shall hear tidings, and so return to his own land: And I will overthrow him with the sword even in his own land.'"
Isaiah 40:7
When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them.
Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear it, nor regard it, to give the glory unto my name, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and will curse your blessings. Yea, curse them will I if ye do not take heed.
Why
Job 10:2
and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.
Psalm 77:5
Then remembered I the times of old, and the years that were past.
General references
Leviticus 19:25
And the fifth year may ye eat of the fruit of them, and gather in the increase of them. I am the LORD your God.
Proverbs 3:9
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstlings of all thine increase:
Malachi 3:9
Therefore are ye cursed with penury, because ye dissemble with me, all the sort of you.