Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Pleasant vessels

General references

Bible References

He be

Genesis 41:52
And the name of the second he called Ephraim For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people, and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become the fulness of nations.
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; His branches shoot over the wall.
Deuteronomy 33:17
His majesty is as the firstling of his ox; And his horns are as the horns of a buffalo. With them shall he push the peoples Together to the ends of the earth. These are the myriads of Ephraim, And these are the thousands of Manasseh.

An east

Hosea 4:19
The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:
Isaiah 41:16
thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind cometh from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.
Ezekiel 17:10
And behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither when the east wind toucheth it? It shall wither in the beds where it grew.
Ezekiel 19:12
But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

His spring

Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Job 18:16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Pleasant vessels

Daniel 11:8
He shall also carry captive into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall subsist for more years than the king of the north;
Nahum 2:9
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; for there is no end of the splendid store of all precious vessels.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.