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
Yahweh multiply you, You, and your children.
Psalm 127:4
As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so, are the children of young men.
Psalm 128:3
Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house, - Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, round about thy table.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour, Water upon the thirsty soil, and Floods 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, they who were weighed against pure gold, How are they accounted as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
As corner stones
Job 42:15
And there were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land, - and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of their brethren.
Proverbs 31:10
A virtuous woman, who can find? for, far beyond corals, is her worth.
Isaiah 3:16
Because haughty are the daughters of Zion, And they walk with neck thrown back, and wanton eyes, - Tripping along as they go, And with their feet, making, a tinkling sound,
The similitude
Song of Songs 8:8
THEYA sister, have we, a little one, and, breasts, hath she none, What shall we do for our sister, in the day when she may be spoken for?
1 Peter 3:3
Whose adorning, let it be - not the outward, of plaiting the hair and wearing golden ornaments, or putting on of apparel,
General references
Amos 8:13
In that day, shall the fair virgins and the choice young men faint for thirst.