Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Gather
Bethhaccerem
General references
Bible References
O ye
Joshua 15:63
But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. So the Jebusites live in Jerusalem among the descendants of Judah to this day.
Joshua 18:21
These were the cities of the tribe of Benjamin’s descendants by their clans:
Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
Judges 1:21
At the same time the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites have lived among the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to this day.
Gather
Jeremiah 4:29 Every city flees
at the sound of the horseman and the archer.
They enter the thickets
and climb among the rocks.
Every city is abandoned;
no inhabitant is left.
at the sound of the horseman and the archer.
They enter the thickets
and climb among the rocks.
Every city is abandoned;
no inhabitant is left.
Jeremiah 10:17 Gather up your belongings from the ground,
you who live under siege.
you who live under siege.
Bethhaccerem
Nehemiah 3:14
Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler over the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.
Evil
Jeremiah 6:22
This is what the Lord says:
Look, an army is coming from a northern land;
a great nation will be awakened
from the remote regions of the earth.
a great nation will be awakened
from the remote regions of the earth.
Jeremiah 1:14
Then the Lord said to me, “Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land.
Jeremiah 4:6 Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north—
a great destruction.
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north—
a great destruction.
Jeremiah 10:22 Listen! A noise—it is coming—
a great commotion from the land to the north.
The cities of Judah will be made desolate,
a jackals’ den.
a great commotion
The cities of Judah will be made desolate,
a jackals’ den.
Jeremiah 25:9
I am going to send for all the families of the north’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them a desolation, a derision, and ruins forever.
Ezekiel 26:7
For this is what the Lord God says: “See, I am about to bring King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a vast company of troops.
General references
Matthew 24:16 “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!