Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Bible References

The day

Malachi 4:5
Behold! I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible Day of Jehovah comes.
Malachi 3:2
Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? He is like a refiner's fire and like laundry soap (the lye of laundrymen).
Ezekiel 7:10
The day is here! It has come! Doom has burst forth. The rod has budded, and arrogance has blossomed!
Joel 2:1
Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of Jehovah comes. It is near!
Zephaniah 1:14
The great Day of Jehovah is near. It is near and coming quickly. Listen! The mighty man will cry out bitterly on the Day of Jehovah.
Zechariah 14:1
Behold! A Day of Jehovah comes, when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.
Luke 19:43
The time is coming when your enemies will surround you and blockade you with a rampart (wall) on all sides. They will close in on you.
Luke 21:20
When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies you will know that desolation is near.
2 Peter 3:7
According to the same word, the heavens that now are, and the earth, are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Shall burn

Psalm 21:9
When you appear, you will make them burn like a blazing furnace. Jehovah will swallow them up in his anger. Fire will devour them.
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake because of him, and the hills melt. The earth trembles (shakes) (heaves) at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwells in it.
Zephaniah 1:18
Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah's anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

And all the

Malachi 3:15
We call arrogant people happy. Evil people test God's patience with their wicked deeds. They not only get away with it, they also prosper.
Exodus 15:7
In the greatness of your excellence you overthrow those who rose up against you. You sent your wrath and consumed them like stubble.
Psalm 119:119
You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross; Therefore I love your law.
Isaiah 2:12
All who are proud will be humbled. Jehovah of Hosts will have his day against all who are arrogant and conceited.
Isaiah 5:24
You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the law of the holy God Jehovah the All-Powerful Holy One of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust.
Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
Isaiah 41:2
Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
Isaiah 47:14
Surely they are like stubble. The fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone and no fire to sit by.
Obadiah 1:18
The house of Jacob will be a fire! The house of Joseph will be a flame! The house of Esau will be for stubble and they will burn among them, and devour them. There will be no survivors of the house of Esau: for Jehovah has spoken!
Nahum 1:10
Entangled like thorns and drunken from drink, they are consumed like dry stubble.

That it

Job 18:16
His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
Amos 2:9
Before them I destroyed the Amorite. His height was like the height of the cedars. He was strong like the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath!

General references

2 Samuel 22:39
I destroyed them! I stuck my sword through my enemies. They were crushed under my feet.
Psalm 21:10
You will destroy their children from the earth and their offspring from among the sons of man.
Psalm 97:3
A fire goes before him and burns up his enemies round about.
Matthew 24:21
There will be great tribulation. It will be greater than any has ever been from the beginning of the world until now.
Acts 2:19
I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.