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 I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:24
I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
The reeds
Isaiah 18:2
which sends ambassadors by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters, saying, Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a terrifying people from it and onwards; a mighty nation and trampling down, whose land the rivers have divided!
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of papyrus for him, and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch, and put the child in it. And she laid it in the reeds by the river's edge.
Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?