Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Bible References

The sword

Hosea 10:14
Therefore, in thy peoples a tumult shall arise, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her sons.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall be condemned; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped open.
Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your suave incense.
Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down, in which thou dost trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God has given thee.
Deuteronomy 32:25
The sword without and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Jeremiah 5:17
And they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees; and thy fenced cities, in which thou dost trust, they shall bring to nothing with the sword.
Micah 5:11
and I will cause all the cities of thy land to be destroyed, and I will cause all thy fortresses to be destroyed:

Consume

Psalm 80:11
She sent out her boughs unto the sea and her branches unto the river.
Isaiah 9:14
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Isaiah 18:5
For before the harvest, when the fruit is perfect, and after the flower is past and the fruit is mature, then he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches.
Isaiah 27:10
Otherwise the defenced city shall be made desolate, and the habitation shall be forsaken and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof.
Ezekiel 15:2
Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree? What is the branch among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel 20:47
and thou shalt say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD. Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I kindle a fire in thee, which shall devour every green tree in thee and every dry tree; the flame of the fire shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of the hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Because

Hosea 10:6
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to King Jareb: Ephraim shall be ashamed, and Israel shall be confused at his own counsel.
Psalm 106:39
Thus they were defiled with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Isaiah 30:1
Woe to the sons that leave, saith the LORD, to make counsel, but not of me; to cover themselves with a covering, and not by my spirit, adding sin unto sin!