Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Bible References

And the

Isaiah 37:25
I dug wells and drank water.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt
with the soles of my feet.”
2 Kings 19:24
I dug wells,
and I drank foreign waters.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt
with the soles of my feet.

The reeds

Isaiah 18:2
sends couriers by sea,
in reed vessels on the waters.


Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,
whose land is divided by rivers.
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
Job 8:11
Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?

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