Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Bible References

A fruitful

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked around and noticed that the whole Jordan plain as far as Zoar was well-watered like the garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 19:25
overthrowing those cities, all of the plain, and everyone who lived in the cities. He also destroyed the plants that grew out of the ground.
Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.
Isaiah 32:13
and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry.

Barrenness

Genesis 14:3
All of this latter group of kings allied together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
Ezekiel 47:11
"The river delta will consist of swamps and marshes that will remain a salt water wetland preserve.

General references

Genesis 19:25
overthrowing those cities, all of the plain, and everyone who lived in the cities. He also destroyed the plants that grew out of the ground.
Isaiah 42:15
I'll devastate the mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I'll turn rivers into islands, and dry up the ponds.
Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back from you what is good.

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