Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

Bible References

Vine

Numbers 32:38
and Nebo and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, the vines of Sibmah as well;
The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters
Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;
Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

Jazer

Numbers 21:32
Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Joshua 21:39
Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.

The spoiler

Jeremiah 48:8
“A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the plateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.
Jeremiah 40:10
Now as for me, behold, I am going to stay at Mizpah to stand for you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, gather in wine and summer fruit and oil and put them in your storage vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken over.”

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