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
And the name of the second he called Ephraim, saying, For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 48:19
And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he is, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a well, whose branches run over the wall.
Deuteronomy 33:17
His glory is like the first-born of his bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
An east
Hosea 4:19
The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Isaiah 41:16
You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in Jehovah and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind from the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse.
Ezekiel 17:10
And behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the beds where it sprouted.
Ezekiel 19:12
But she was plucked up in fury; she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire burned them up.
His spring
Hosea 9:11
Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.
Job 18:16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and his branch shall wither above.
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their fathers, so that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Pleasant vessels
Daniel 11:8
And he shall also carry their gods captives with their molten images into Egypt, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold. And he shall stand for years away from the king of the north.
Nahum 2:9
Seize the silver; seize the gold; for there is no end to the treasures; riches from all precious vessels.
General references
Isaiah 17:9
In that day his strong cities shall be like a forsaken branch, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the sons of Israel; and it will become a ruin.