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Isa 19:6 — And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

and the		Isa 37:25; 2Ki 19:24
the reeds		Isa 18:2; Exd 2:3; Job 8:11

Correlating Passages

and the

	Isa 37:25	I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
	2Ki 19:24	I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

the reeds

	Isa 18:2	That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
	Exd 2:3	And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.
	Job 8:11	Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 19:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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