Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

General references

Bible References

Are blind

Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep,
He has shut your eyes, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, the seers.
Jeremiah 14:13
But, “Ah, Lord God!” I said, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come,
The days of retribution have come;
Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool,
The inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.’
Luke 6:39
And He also spoke a parable to them: A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?

They are all dumb

Isaiah 58:1
Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 6:13
“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone is greedy for gain,
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals falsely.
Jeremiah 23:13
“Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing:
They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
Ezekiel 3:15
Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there seven days where they were living, causing consternation among them.
Ezekiel 13:16
along with the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 33:6
But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’
Philippians 3:2
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;

Loving

Proverbs 6:4
Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Proverbs 24:30
I passed by the field of the sluggard
And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense,
Jonah 1:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”
Nahum 3:18
Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria;
Your nobles are lying down.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to regather them.
Mark 13:34
It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.

General references

Deuteronomy 27:18
Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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