Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

General references

Bible References

The fields

Isaiah 15:4
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; each one of them shall cry out for his soul.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh.
2 Samuel 1:21
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you nor fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

The vine

Isaiah 16:9
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping Jazer of the vine of Sibmah; I will cause thee to drink my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, for the song shall cease upon thy summer fruits and thy harvest.
Numbers 32:38
and Nebo and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Shibmah and gave other names unto the cities which they built.

The lords

Isaiah 10:7
Howbeit he shall not think like this; not even in his heart shall he imagine this way of doing things, but his thought shall be to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Jeremiah 27:6
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my slave; and even the beasts of the field I have given him that they might serve him.

General references

Joshua 13:16
and their border was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain until Medeba,
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh.