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 as far as Jahaz. So the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life is broken to him.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns, the vine droops, all the merry-hearted sigh.
2 Samuel 1:21
Mountains of Gilboa, let not dew or rain be on you, nor fields of offerings. For there the shield of the mighty has been evilly cast away, the shield of Saul not being anointed with oil.

The vine

Isaiah 16:9
On account of this 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 has fallen on your fruit and on your harvest.
Numbers 32:38
and Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed) and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

The lords

Isaiah 10:7
Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.
Jeremiah 27:6
And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant. And I have also given him the beast of the field to serve him.

General references

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