Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

General references

Bible References

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Jeremiah 48:6

“Run! Save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
Job 8:11

“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the rushes or reed grass grow without water?
Job 15:30

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.
Psalm 1:4

The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,
But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.
Psalm 92:7

That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.
Psalm 129:6

Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,
Isaiah 1:30

For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and dies
And like a garden that has no water.

And shall

2 Kings 7:2
Then the royal officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “If the Lord should make windows in heaven [for the rain], could this thing take place?” Elisha said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but [because you doubt] you will not eat of it.”
Job 20:17

“He does not look at the rivers,
The flowing streams of honey and butter [to enjoy his wealth].

A salt

Deuteronomy 29:23
‘The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it; it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.’
Judges 9:45
Abimelech fought against the city that entire day. He took the city and killed the people who were in it; he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh [and wholesome for animal life]; they will [as the river subsides] be left encrusted with salt.
Zephaniah 2:9

“Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
Moab will in fact become like Sodom
And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah,
A land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them
And what is left of My nation will inherit them [as their own].”

General references

2 Kings 7:20
And so it happened to him; for the people trampled him at the gate, and he died.
Job 8:12

“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].
Psalm 118:8

It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in man.