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Isaiah 7:23
Isaiah 7:23 is verse 23 of Isaiah chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Hebrew a thousand of silver; that is, approximately 25.1 pounds or 11.4 kilograms of silver
King James Version
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
World English Bible
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or 22 pounds.
Read in context
Isaiah 7:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
22 and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
23 And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
24 Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
25 For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Song of Solomon 8:11Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
Song of Solomon 8:12But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
Matthew 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Isaiah 32:12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
Isaiah 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
Jeremiah 4:26I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
Hebrews 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.