Bible Dictionary: Rocks: Barren

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Ezekiel 26:4,14
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
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Amos 6:12
Shall horses run on the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
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Luke 8:6
And some fell on a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
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Library

The World Compared to the Sea.
... Footnotes: [579] Literally, synagogues. [580] [The ports and happy havens beautifully
contrasted with rocks and shoals and barren or inhospitable isles.]. ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xiv the world compared to.htm

On the Mountain
... ocean, and stretching into all corners of the universe, and dominating over all
ages, yet in that ocean there may stand up black and dry rocks, barren as they ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/on the mountain.htm

The City of the "Elegant Gate"[*]
... Buildings, temples, even the rocks and the hills have a peculiar appearance of age
and seem to be falling into decay. ... It is rocky and mountainous and barren. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/iii the city of the.htm

Patmos
... be desolate and barren, the blue heavens that bent above him were as bright and
beautiful as the skies above his loved Jerusalem. In the wild, rugged rocks, in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 56 patmos.htm

In the Scilly Isles
... For what political reason such a number of workmen were gathered together and employed
at so large an expense to fortify a few barren rocks, which whosoever ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/in the scilly isles.htm

Gambling, Card-Playing
... Monaco is about eight miles square, and lies on a "barren, rocky ridge between the
sea and lofty, almost inaccessible rocks." The soil is barren, except in ...
/.../questionable amusements and worthy substitutes/iii gambling card-playing.htm

The Plagues of Egypt
... On either side of it, barren rocks and deserts of sand, and running through it from
end to end, the great river Nile"'The River' of which the Bible speaks. ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon x the plagues of.htm

Mahanaim: the Two Camps
... do with me what Thou wilt,' then he may be sure that that path, though it may be
solitary of human companionship, and leading up amongst barren rocks and over ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/mahanaim the two camps.htm

The Shepherd, the Stone of Israel
... toiling along the road. The barren rocks and white snow glow with purple
as the setting sun touches them. The struggles with Laban ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the shepherd the stone of.htm

The Prodigality of Providence
... Of course he is to be misjudged and ineffective and barren of results; but if ... expecting
that much of his seed will fall among the thorns and rocks, but with ...
/.../peabody/mornings in the college chapel/xlv the prodigality of providence.htm

Subtopics

Rocks

Rocks used as Altars

Rocks used as Places for Idolatrous Worship

Rocks used as Places for Shelter by the Poor in Their Distress

Rocks used as Places of Observation

Rocks used as Places of Safety in Danger

Rocks were a Defence to a Country

Rocks: A Place of Safety

Rocks: Adullam

Rocks: Barren

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