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
The second called he Ephraim, "For God," said he, "hath caused me to grow in the land of my trouble."
Genesis 48:16
And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth."
Genesis 49:22
"That flourishing child, Joseph; that flourishing child, and goodly unto the eye! The daughters come forth to bear rule;
Deuteronomy 33:17
His beauty is as a firstborn ox and his horns as the horns of an unicorn. And with them he shall push the nations together, even unto the ends of the world. These are the many thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh."
Job 18:5
Shall not the light of the ungodly be put out? Yea, the flame of his fire shall not burn.
From the birth
Psalm 58:8
Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Amos 1:13
Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of the children of Ammon, I will not spare them: because they ripped up the women great with child in Gilead, to make the borders of their lands the wider.
From the womb
Hosea 9:14
O LORD thou shalt give them: what shalt thou give them? Give them an unfruitful womb and dry breasts!
Deuteronomy 28:18
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land be and the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep.
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days will come, when men shall say, 'Happy are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'