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.
His spring
Pleasant vessels
General references
Bible References
He be
Genesis 41:52
The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
Genesis 49:22
"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
Deuteronomy 33:17
A firstborn bull--he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
An east
Hosea 4:19
A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 41:16
you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,
Ezekiel 17:10
Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it--wither away on the bed where it sprouted?"
Ezekiel 19:12
But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it.
His spring
Hosea 9:11
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird-- no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Job 18:16
His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
Psalm 109:13
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities."
Pleasant vessels
Daniel 11:8
He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.
Nahum 2:9
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
General references
Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.