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.
And the
The reeds
Bible References
And the
Isaiah 37:25
I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:24
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
The reeds
Isaiah 18:2
that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters,'saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?