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 and drank water; and I will dry up with the sole of my footstep all the rivers of Egypt,
2 Kings 19:24
I dug and drank the waters of strangers, and I will dry up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of the fortress.
The reeds
Isaiah 18:2
Sending messengers upon the sea, and in vessels of the bulrush upon the face of the waters, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation drawn out and sharpened, to a people to be feared from this, and farther off; a nation of might, of might, and of treading down, of which the rivers divided up its land.
Exodus 2:3
And she will not be able any more to hide him, and she will take for him an ark of bulrush, and will pitch it with bitumen and with pitch, and she will put in it the child, and will put in the sedge by the lip of the river.
Job 8:11
Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?