Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
The strength
Bearers
General references
Bible References
The strength
Numbers 13:31
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are too strong for us.”
Numbers 32:9
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
Psalm 11:1 In the Lord I take refuge [and put my trust];
How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;
How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;
Haggai 1:2
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘These people say, “The time has not come that the Lord’s house (temple) should be rebuilt.”’”
Bearers
2 Chronicles 2:18
He assigned 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stone in the mountain, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
Ezekiel 29:18
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army work hard [at My command] against Tyre; every [soldier’s] head became bald and every shoulder was worn and peeled [from carrying loads of dirt and stones for siege works]. Yet he had no wages from Tyre [in proportion to the time and labor expended during the siege], either for himself or his army, for the work that he had done against it [for Me].”
General references
Psalm 102:14
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.