Treasury of Scripture
I will stretch. This metaphor is taken from the custom of using a line in measuring land, and in dividing portions of it among several persons. Samaria was taken, pillaged, and ruined, and its inhabitants carried into captivity: Jerusalem shall have the same measure.
2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria...
Isaiah 10:22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return...
Isaiah 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies...
Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it...
Lamentations 2:8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line...
Ezekiel 23:31-34 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand...
Amos 7:7,8 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood on a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand...
Zechariah 1:16 Therefore thus said the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, said the LORD of hosts...
the plummet.
2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinfolks, and his priests...
1 Kings 21:21-24 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that urinates against the wall...
I will wipe. I will empty Jerusalem of all its wealth and inhabitants, as truly as a dish turned up and wiped is emptied of its contents.
1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that urinates against the wall...
Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction...
Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant...
Ezekiel 24:10,11 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned...
Revelation 18:21-23 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying...
wiping it, and turning it upside down. Heb. he wipeth and turneth it upon the face thereof.