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.

Bible References

Their

Genesis 41:52
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 48:16
The Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be perpetuated in 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 well; whose branches run over the wall:
Deuteronomy 33:17
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of a 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.
Job 18:5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

From the birth

Psalm 58:8
As a snail who melts, let every one of 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 children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.
Amos 1:13
Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped up the women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

From the womb

Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Deuteronomy 28:18
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, and the offspring of your sheep.
Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.