Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Bible References

The rush

Exodus 2:3
And when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child therein, and put it in the flags by the river's brink.
Isaiah 19:5
The water of the sea shall be drawn out, the Nile shall sink away, and be drunk up.