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
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Bible References
A thousand vines
Song of Songs 8:11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; this vineyard delivered he unto the keepers, that every one for the fruit thereof should give him a thousand pieces of silver.
Matthew 21:33
"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:
Be for briers
Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.
Isaiah 32:12
For as the infants weep when their mothers' teats are dried, so shall you weep for your fair fields and fruitful vineyards.
Jeremiah 4:26
I marked well, and the plowed field was become waste: yea, all their cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and indignation of his wrath.
Hebrews 6:8
but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.
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Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that now be well occupied, shall be void, and the land desolate: that ye may know how that I am the LORD.'"