Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

Bible References

The idols

Genesis 31:19
And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel will steal the family gods which were to her father.
Judges 18:14
And the five men going to search the land of Laish will answer and say to their brethren, Knew ye that there is in these houses an ephod, and a teraphim, and a carved thing, and a molten? and now know ye what ye will do.
Isaiah 44:9
They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 46:5
To whom will ye liken me and make equal? and compare me and we shall be like?
Jeremiah 10:8
And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.
Jeremiah 14:22
Is there among the vanities of the nations those causing ruin? and if the heavens will give showers? Art not thou he, Jehovah our God? And we will wait for thee: for thou didst make all these.
Hosea 3:4
For many days shall the sons of Israel dwell, not a king and not a chief and not a sacrifice and not a pillar and it one ephod and teraphim
Habakkuk 2:18
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

The diviners

Jeremiah 23:25
I heard what the prophets said, prophesying a falsehood in my name, saying, I dreamed, I dreamed.
Jeremiah 27:9
And ye shall not hear to your prophets and to your divinations, and to your dreamers, and to those of you practicing magic, and to your sorcerers, which they are saying to you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babel:
Jeremiah 29:8
For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Your prophets in the midst of you shall not deceive to you, and your diviners and you shall not hear to your dreams which ye dream.
Lamentations 2:14
Thy prophets saw for thee vanity and a foolish thing, and they uncovered not upon thine iniquity to turn back thy captivity; and they will see for thee burdens of falsehood and seductions.
Ezekiel 13:6
They saw vanity and a divination of falsehood, saying, says Jehovah: and Jehovah sent them not: and they waited to raise up the word.
Ezekiel 21:29
In seeing vanity to thee, in divining to thee a lie to give thee, to the necks of the wounded of the unjust, to whom their day came in the time of iniquity the end.
Micah 3:6
For this, night to you from a vision, and darkness to you from divining; and the sun went down upon the prophets, and the day was dark upon them.

They comfort

Job 13:4
And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.
Job 21:34
And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?
Jeremiah 6:14
And they will heal the breaking of the daughter of my people by making light, and saying, Peace, peace; and no peace.
Jeremiah 8:11
And they will heal the breaking of the daughter of my people by making light of, saying, Peace, peace; and no peace.
Jeremiah 14:13
And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophets saying to them, Ye shall not see the sword, and famine shall not be to you; for the peace of truth will I give to you in this place.
Jeremiah 23:17
Saying to say to those despising the word of Jehovah, There shall be peace to you; and every one going in the stubbornness of his heart, they said, Evil shall not come to you.
Jeremiah 28:4
And Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim King of Judah, and all the captivity of Judah going to Babel, I turn back to this place, says Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babel.
Jeremiah 37:19
And where now your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babel shall not come against you and against this land?

Therefore

Jeremiah 13:17
And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in hiding places from the face of pride, and mine eye weeping shall weep and bring down tears, because the flock of Jehovah was taken captive.
Jeremiah 50:17
Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast
Jeremiah 51:23
And I broke in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and I broke in pieces with thee the husbandman and his yoke; and I broke in pieces with thee the prefects and the rulers.
Micah 2:12
Gathering, O Jacob, I will gather all of thee; collecting, I will collect the remnant of Israel; together I will set them as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their pasture they shall make noise from man.

Troubled, because there

Numbers 27:17
Who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who shall bring them out, and who shall bring them in; and the assembly of Jehovah shall not be as sheep to whom not a shepherd to them.
1 Kings 22:17
And he will say, I saw all Israel scattered to the mountains as sheep which not to them a shepherd: and Jehovah will say, No lords to these; they shall turn back a man to his house in peace.
Ezekiel 34:5
And they will be scattered from Without a shepherd: and they will be for consuming to all the beasts of the field, and they will be scattered.
Matthew 9:36
And having seen the crowds, he felt compassion for them, for they were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep not having a shepherd.