Thematic Bible: Pit


Thematic Bible



They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

He who leads the upright astray in an evil way
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.


For a harlot is a deep pit
And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the hole which he made. His mischief will return upon his own head, And his violence will descend upon his own pate.

May the flood of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

The arrogant have dug pits for me,
Men who are not in accord with Your law.

He who digs a pit will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

“The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.


They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.

and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them.

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.


Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.