Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
From the birth
From the womb
Bible References
Their
Genesis 41:52
And the name of the second he called Ephraim, For God, said he, has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 48:16
the Angel who frees me from all evil, bless these young men, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a fountain, whose daughters run over the wall.
Deuteronomy 33:17
His beauty is like the firstborn of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.
Job 18:5
The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
From the birth
Psalm 58:8
As a snail which melts, let them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.
Amos 1:13
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have ripped off the mountains of Gilead that they might enlarge their border:
From the womb
Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD, that which thou must give them; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Deuteronomy 28:18
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy cows and the flocks of thy sheep.
Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bare and the breasts which never gave suck.