Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Shall the women
Of a span long
General references
Bible References
Shall the women
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.
Deuteronomy 28:53
Because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade, you will eat the flesh of your own children, the sons and daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you.
2 Kings 6:28
The king asked: What is your trouble? She answered: The other day a woman suggested that we eat my child. Then we could eat her child the next day.
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will cause them.'
Ezekiel 5:10
Fathers will eat their sons among you and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter your entire remnant to every wind.'
Of a span long
Lamentations 1:19
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me. My priests and my responsible men are dying. They look for food to give them new life.
Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil doing of her priests. They have drained the blood of the upright out from her.
Psalm 78:64
His priests were cut down with swords. The widows of his priests could not even weep for them.
Isaiah 9:14
So Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed (rush) in one day.
Jeremiah 5:31
Prophets prophesy falsehoods. Priests rule under the prophets' directions, and my people love this. But what will you do when the end comes?'
Jeremiah 14:15
I did not send these prophets. Yet, they prophesy in my name that there will be no wars or famines in this land. So this is what I, Jehovah, say about them: 'Wars and famines will bring an end to these prophets.
Jeremiah 23:11
The prophets and priests are godless. Even in my Temple I have found them doing evil, declares Jehovah.
Ezekiel 9:5
I heard God say to the other men: Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one! Have mercy on no one.
General references
Lamentations 3:50
Jehovah looks down and sees from heaven.
Lamentations 5:12
They put princes to death by hanging. The elders are not honored.
Mark 13:17
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!