Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
A thousand vines
Be for briers
General references
Bible References
A thousand vines
Song of Songs 8:11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
Be for briers
Isaiah 5:6
and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah 32:12
They shall smite on the breasts in lamentation for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
Jeremiah 4:26
I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.
Hebrews 6:8
but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned.
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Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.