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 LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
Thorns
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 27:4
Wrath is not in me. Would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them. I would burn them together.
Isaiah 37:36
And the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
2 Samuel 23:6
But the worthless shall be as thorns to be thrust away, all of them, because they cannot be taken with the hand.
General references
Isaiah 29:6
She shall be visited by LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.