Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

General references

Bible References

Laid

Job 11:9

“It is longer in measure [and scope] than the earth,
And broader than the sea.
Job 28:25

“When He gave weight and pressure to the wind
And allotted the waters by measure,
Proverbs 8:27

“When He established the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there;
When He drew a circle upon the face of the deep,
Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],
And calculated the dust of the earth with a measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

Who hath stretched

Psalm 19:4

Yet their voice [in quiet evidence] has gone out through all the earth,
Their words to the end of the world.
In them and in the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,
Psalm 78:55

He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
Isaiah 34:11

But the pelican and the porcupine will take possession of it;
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
And He will stretch over it (Edom) the measuring line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.
Zechariah 2:1
And I looked up, and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Corinthians 10:16
so that we may preach the gospel even in the lands beyond you, but not to boast in work already accomplished in another one’s field of activity.

General references

Psalm 102:25

“At the beginning You founded the earth;
The heavens are the work of Your hands.