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 dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:24
I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'
The reeds
Isaiah 18:2
which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Exodus 2:3
When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
Job 8:11
"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?