Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
O virgin
Bible References
Gilead
Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
So why has the healing of my dear people
not come about?
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Is there no physician there?
So why has the healing of my dear
not come about?
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Jeremiah 51:8 Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered.
Wail for her;
get balm for her wound—
perhaps she can be healed.
Wail for her;
get balm
perhaps she can be healed.
Genesis 37:25
Then they sat down to eat a meal. They looked up, and there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.
Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift—some balsam and some honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.
Ezekiel 27:17
Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They exchanged wheat from Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm, for your goods.
O virgin
Jeremiah 14:17 You are to speak this word to them:
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,
for the virgin daughter of my people
has been destroyed by a great disaster,
an extremely severe wound.
Let my eyes overflow with tears;
day and night may they not stop,
for the virgin daughter of my people
has been destroyed by a great disaster,
an extremely severe wound.
Isaiah 47:1 “Go down and sit in the dust,
Virgin Daughter Babylon.
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter Chaldea!
For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.
Virgin Daughter Babylon.
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter Chaldea!
For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.
In vain
Jeremiah 30:12
For this is what the Lord says:
Your injury is incurable;
your wound most severe.
your wound most severe.
Ezekiel 30:21
“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged—no medicine has been applied and no splint put on to bandage it so that it can grow strong enough to handle a sword.
Micah 1:9 For her wound is incurable
and has reached even Judah;
it has approached the gate of my people,
as far as Jerusalem.
and has reached even Judah;
it has approached the gate of my people,
as far as Jerusalem.
Nahum 3:19 There is no remedy for your injury;
your wound is severe.
All who hear the news about you
will clap their hands because of you,
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty?
your wound is severe.
All who hear the news about you
will clap their hands because of you,
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty?
Matthew 5:26 I assure you: You will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!
Luke 8:43
A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years, who had spent all she had on doctors yet could not be healed by any,