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 dug and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet shall I dry up all the rivers of sustenance.
2 Kings 19:24
I have dug and drunk the waters of others, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of defended places.
The reeds
Isaiah 18:2
He who sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to the people scattered and peeled, to the people full of fears from their beginning, and until now, a people tired of waiting and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Exodus 2:3
And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the child in it, and she laid it in the reeds by the river's brink.
Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the meadow grow without water?