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 digged, and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
2 Kings 19:24
I have digged and drank 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 sendeth embassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the rivers have laid waste.
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 therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Job 8:11
Can the rush grow without mire? can the flag grow without water?