Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

The valleys

As wax

General references

Bible References

The mountains

Judges 5:4
"Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
Psalm 97:5
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isaiah 64:1
Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,
Amos 9:5
For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Revelation 20:11
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

The valleys

Zechariah 14:4
His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

As wax

Psalm 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

General references

Psalm 114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.