Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
As corner stones
The similitude
General references
Bible References
As plants
Psalm 115:14
LORD increase you more and more, you and your sons.
Psalm 127:4
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of youth.
Psalm 128:3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of thy house, thy sons like olive plants round about thy table.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
As corner stones
Job 42:15
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
Proverbs 31:10
A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
Isaiah 3:16
Moreover LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,
The similitude
Song of Songs 8:8
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
1 Peter 3:3
Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel,
General references
Amos 8:13
In that day the fair virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.