Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
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Bible References
We
Isaiah 28:9
[To] whom will he teach knowledge, and [to] whom will he explain [the] message? Those who are weaned from milk, [those] taken from [the] breast?
1 Corinthians 9:19
For [although I] am free from all [people], I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.
Piped
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, "{The bridegroom's attendants} are not able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But days are coming when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
1 Kings 1:40
All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on the flutes and rejoicing [with] great joy, and the earth shook with their noise.
Isaiah 30:29
{You shall have a song} as [in] [the] night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Consider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come.
Jeremiah 31:4
I will again build you, and you will be built, O virgin Israel. You will again adorn yourself [with] your tambourines, and you will go forth in [the] dancing in a ring of [the] merrymakers.
Luke 15:25
"Now his older son was in the field, and when he came [and] approached the house, he heard music and dancing.
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Proverbs 29:9
[If] a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule, but there is no relief.