The New

Treasury

of Scripture

Knowledge

Edited by

Jerome H. Smith

thomas nelson publishers

Nashville • Atlanta • London • Vancouver

Copyright © 1992 by Jerome H. Smith

All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, and distributed in Canada by Lawson Falle, Ltd., Cambridge, Ontario.

Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, P.O. Box 49068, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80949.

Printed in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The New treasury of scripture knowledge : the most complete listing of
cross-references available anywhere—every verse, every theme, every
important word / edited by Jerome H. Smith.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: The treasury of scripture knowledge.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0–8407–7694–2
1. Bible—Cross references. I. Smith, Jerome H. II. Treasury of

scripture knowledge. BS430.N48 1992 220.582033—dc20 91–45487 CIP

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 — 97 96 95 94 93 92

PREFACE

I first learned of The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge in a vacation Bible school class on “How to Study the Bible” taught to senior high school students at the Highland Park Baptist Church by Miss Ellen Groh. Miss Groh was a student at the Detroit Bible College at the time and later went to the mission field. The pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church then was Dr. Lehman Strauss. That was the summer of 1955.

That Christmas my Aunt Ethel Sherwin sent me a Christmas card with a five-dollar bill. On December 24, 1955, I rode my bicycle four miles to the Grand Bible and Book Store in Highland Park and had Mr. Bob Humphries, the proprietor, locate a copy of the book for me. To this day I believe this Bible study tool was the best investment I have ever made for Bible study.

I was convinced that I needed to buy the book for myself when in Miss Groh’s class I looked up the encouraging references at 2 Timothy 1:7. During the years immediately after high school graduation, I used the volume as many as three hours a day in Bible study.

Over the years I have marked my copy of the Treasury, underlining particularly clear references, and noting printing errors as I found them. I added references to those already given in the Treasury in the wide margins of my study Bibles, as I prepared weekly Sunday school lessons over the years.

In the main reading room of the library at Bob Jones University I first saw Scott’s Commentary, and found this to be the primary source of the references in the Treasury. The Treasury has many additional references not found in Scott, though in some passages, such as Exodus 20, the reverse is true. I have since obtained several used editions of Scott’s Commentary. Many variations from Scott’s original references (over 4,000) and printing errors (nearly 1,000) present in the original edition of the Treasury ...