Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Shall the women
Of a span long
General references
Bible References
Shall the women
Lamentations 4:10 The hands of compassionate women
Boiled their own children;
They becamefood for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
They became
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Leviticus 26:29
Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
Deuteronomy 28:53 Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.
2 Kings 6:28
And the king said to her, “What is the matter with you?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.
Of a span long
Lamentations 1:19 “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me;
Mypriests and my elders perished in the city
While they sought food torestore their strength themselves.
My
While they sought food to
Lamentations 4:13 Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
Theblood of the righteous;
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The
Psalm 78:64 His priests fell by the sword,
AndHis widows could not weep.
And
Isaiah 9:14 So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrushin a single day.
Both palm branch and bulrush
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests ruleon their own authority;
And My peoplelove it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?
And the priests rule
And My people
But what will you do at the end of it?
Jeremiah 14:15
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!
Jeremiah 23:11 “For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 9:5
But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.
General references
Lamentations 3:50 Until the Lord looks down
And sees from heaven.
And sees from heaven.
Lamentations 5:12 Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.
Mark 13:17 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!