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 soles of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:24
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
The reeds
Isaiah 18:2
That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, to a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation powerful and treading down, whose land the rivers divide!
Exodus 2:3
And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with tar and with pitch, and put the child in it; and she laid it among the reeds by the river's bank.
Job 8:11
Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? can the reeds grow without water?