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 waters, - That I may dry up, with the soles of my feet, all the Nile-streams of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:24
I, have digged, and have drunk foreign waters, - and have dried up, with the soles of my feet, all the streams of besieged places.
The reeds
Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth by the sea, ambassadors Even in vessels of paper-reed, upon the face of the waters, - Go ye swift messengers Unto a nation drawn out and polished, Unto a people terrible from their beginning and onwards, - A nation most mighty and subduing, Whose land rivers have cut through.
Exodus 2:3
And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of paper-reed, and covered it over with bitumen, and with pitch, - and put therein the child, and laid it among the rushes upon the bank of the river.
Job 8:11
Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?