Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Fire
The land
And behind
General references
Bible References
Fire
Joel 1:19 To You, O Lord, I cry;
Forfire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
For
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
Psalm 50:3 May our God come and not keep silence;
Fire devours before Him,
And it is verytempestuous around Him.
And it is very
Amos 7:4
Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land.
The land
Genesis 2:8
The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
Genesis 13:10
Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
Isaiah 51:3 Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all herwaste places.
And herwilderness He will make like Eden,
And her desert like thegarden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
He will comfort all her
And her
And her desert like the
Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
Ezekiel 31:8 ‘The cedars in God’s garden could not match it;
Thecypresses could not compare with its boughs,
And the plane treescould not match its branches.
No tree inGod’s garden could compare with it in its beauty.
The
And the plane trees
No tree in
And behind
Joel 1:4 What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what theswarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, thestripping locust has eaten.
And what the
And what the creeping locust has left, the
Exodus 10:5
They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.
Jeremiah 5:17 “They will devour your harvest and your food;
They will devour your sons and your daughters;
They will devour your flocks and your herds;
They will devour yourvines and your fig trees;
They will demolish with the sword yourfortified cities in which you trust.
They will devour your sons and your daughters;
They will devour your flocks and your herds;
They will devour your
They will demolish with the sword your
Zechariah 7:14
“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
General references
Genesis 7:21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;