Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
No physician
Why
Recovered
Bible References
No balm
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.
Jeremiah 51:8
Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.
Genesis 37:25
Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.
Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and nuts:
No physician
Matthew 9:11
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?
Luke 5:31
And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
Luke 8:43
And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had given all her money to medical men, and not one of them was able to make her well,
Why
Jeremiah 30:12
For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.
Recovered
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.