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 sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Moab, I will not spare him: because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom to ashes.
Thorns
Isaiah 9:18
For the ungodly burn, as a fire in the briers and thorns: And as it were out of a fire in a wood or a red bush, so ascendeth the smoke of their pride.
Isaiah 27:4
I hear no evil will in my mind. Who will compel me that I, greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?
Isaiah 37:36
Thus the angel went forth, and slew of the Assyrians host, a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when men arose up early, at Jerusalem: Behold, all lay full of dead bodies.
2 Samuel 23:6
when the unthrifty men are all of them as thorns taken out of their places, which cannot be taken with hands.
General references
Isaiah 29:6
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of Hosts with thunder, earthquake, and with a great noise, with the whirlwind, tempest, and with the flame of a consuming fire.