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 brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.
Haggai 2:16
From that time one hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty.
Isaiah 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,
Malachi 3:8
Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: 'In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!
Blow upon it
2 Samuel 22:16
And seen are the streams of the sea, Revealed are foundations of the world, By the rebuke of Jehovah, From the breath of the spirit of His anger.
2 Kings 19:7
Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'
Isaiah 40:7
Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people is grass;
Malachi 2:2
If ye hearken not, and if ye lay it not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying it to heart.
Why
Job 10:2
I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me.
Psalm 77:5
I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages.
General references
Leviticus 19:25
And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit -- to add to you its increase; I am Jehovah your God.
Proverbs 3:9
Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;
Malachi 3:9
With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving -- this nation -- all of it.