Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Bible References

Disappointeth

Job 12:16
With him are strength and prudence; both the one who goes astray and the one who misleads are his.
Nehemiah 4:15
It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.
Psalm 33:10
The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
Psalm 37:17
for evil men will lose their power, but the Lord sustains the godly.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.
Isaiah 8:10
Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!
Isaiah 19:3
The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.

Their hands

Psalm 21:11
Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.
Isaiah 37:36
The Lord's messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!
Acts 12:11
When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen."
Acts 23:12
When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

General references

Genesis 31:22
Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.
2 Samuel 11:9
But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.
Luke 20:8
Then Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by whose authority I do these things."
John 7:53
[[And each one departed to his own house.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent."

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