Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Bible References

Nation

Joel 2:2

A day of darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and of thick [dark] mist,
Like the dawn spread over the mountains;
There is a [pagan, hostile] people numerous and mighty,
The like of which has never been before
Nor will be again afterward
Even for years of many generations.
Proverbs 30:25

The ants are not a strong people,
Yet they prepare their food in the summer;

My

Psalm 107:34

A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Isaiah 8:8

“Then it will sweep on into Judah; it will overflow and pass through [the hills],
Reaching even to the neck [of which Jerusalem is the head],
And its outstretched wings (the armies of Assyria) will fill the width of Your land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 32:13

For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars—
Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Hosea 9:3

They will not remain in the land of the Lord,
But Ephraim will return to [another] Egypt [in bondage]
And they will eat [ceremonially] unclean food in Assyria.

Whose

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation (class of people) whose teeth are like swords
And whose jaw teeth are like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.
Revelation 9:7
The locusts resembled horses prepared and equipped for battle; and on their heads appeared to be [something like] golden crowns, and their faces resembled human faces.