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?

Recovered

Bible References

No balm

Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead and fetch balsam, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain, hast thou multiplied remedies, Healing, there is none for thee.
Jeremiah 51:8
Suddenly, hath Babylon fallen and been broken, - Howl ye over her Fetch balsam for her pain, Peradventure she shall be healed!
Genesis 37:25
And when they had sat down to eat bread, they lifted up their eyes and looked, and lo! a caravan of Ishmaelites, coming in from Gilead, - and, their camels, were bearing tragacanth gum, and balsam and cistus-gum, they were going their way, to take them down to Egypt.
Genesis 43:11
Then Israel their father said unto them - If so, then do this, - Take of the song of the land in your vessels, and carry down to the man a present, - A little balsam and a little honey, tragacanth gum and cistus gum, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

No physician

Matthew 9:11
And, the Pharisees, observing it, began to say unto his disciples, - Wherefore, with tax-collectors and sinners, doth your Teacher eat?
Luke 5:31
And, answering, Jesus said unto them - No need, have, the whole, of a physician, but, they who are sick.
Luke 8:43
And, a woman, with a flow of blood of twelve years standing, who indeed could, from no one, be cured,

Why

Jeremiah 30:12
For Thus, saith Yahweh - incurable is thine injury, - Grievous is thy wound:

Recovered

Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye would again turn aside! The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint: