Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Ye looked
Blow upon it
Why
General references
Bible References
Ye looked
Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.”
Haggai 2:16 from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.
Isaiah 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered therock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
And have not remembered the
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
Malachi 3:8
“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.
Blow upon it
2 Samuel 22:16 “Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world werelaid bare
By the rebuke of the Lord,
At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
The foundations of the world were
By the rebuke of the Lord,
2 Kings 19:7
Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
Isaiah 40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades,
When the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.
Surely the people are grass.
Malachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.
Why
Job 10:2 “I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.
Let me know why You contend with me.
Psalm 77:5 I have considered the days of old,
The years of long ago.
The years of long ago.
General references
Leviticus 19:25
In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.
Proverbs 3:9 Honor the Lord from your wealth
And from thefirst of all your produce;
And from the
Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!