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; his life shall be troubled unto him.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
2 Samuel 1:21
You 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 weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest has fallen.
Numbers 32:38
And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they built.

The lords

Isaiah 10:7
Yet he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart 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 servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

General references

Joshua 13:16
And their territory was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.