Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

The burnings

General references

Bible References

The burnings

Amos 2:1
Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Moab and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

Thorns

Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 27:4
“I have no wrath.
Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.
2 Samuel 23:6
But the worthless, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns,
Because they cannot be taken in hand;

General references

Isaiah 29:6
From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise,
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.