Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Purposed
He hath not
Destroying
He made
General references
Bible References
Purposed
Lamentations 2:17
Jehovah accomplished his purpose. He accomplished what he said he would with the orders he gave in the days that are past. He tore down and shows no compassion. He causes your enemies to rejoice. He lifted up the horn (power) of your adversaries.
Isaiah 5:5
Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
Jeremiah 5:10
Go up through her vineyards and destroy them. But do not execute a complete destruction. Strip away her branches, for they are not Jehovah's.
Stretched
2 Samuel 8:2
He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.
2 Kings 21:13
The line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab will be stretched over Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.
Isaiah 28:17
I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Isaiah 34:11
Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.
Amos 7:7
He showed me: and, behold, Jehovah stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
He hath not
Job 13:21
Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.
Ezekiel 20:22
But I withdrew my hand (assistance) and acted for the sake of my name. That way it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
Destroying
Lamentations 2:2
Without mercy Jehovah destroyed every village in Judah. He tore down the forts that defended the land. He brought disgrace on the kingdom and its rulers.
He made
Isaiah 3:26
Her (Zion's) gates will lament and mourn and she will sit on the ground deserted.
Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem.
General references
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland.