Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Ye children
The former, etc
He will
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Bible References
Ye children
Psalm 149:2
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Zechariah 9:13
When I have bent Judah as my bow, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man.
Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
The former, etc
Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Deuteronomy 32:2
My teaching shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Job 33:23
If there be a messenger with him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:
Psalm 72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Isaiah 30:21
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
Ephesians 4:8
Therefore he says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
He will
Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:14
That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil.
Deuteronomy 28:12
The LORD shall open unto you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.
Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Hosea 6:3
Let us know, let us press on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
In
Amos 4:7
And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one part was rained upon, and the part upon which it rained not withered.
General references
Deuteronomy 11:14
That I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil.