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 for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Isaiah 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.