Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 41:8 - 41:8

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Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 41:8 - 41:8


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Slay: Job 2:4; Psa 49:6-8; Pro 13:8; Mat 6:25, Mat 16:26; Mar 8:36-37; Phi 3:7-9

treasures: These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the mattamores in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.