1 Kings 8:46

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

There is no man

Unto the land

General references

Proverbs 20:9

Bible References

There is no man

"The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given -- because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ -- to those who believe.

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

Unto the land

"'Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today."

In the ninth year of Hoshea's reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

"You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day -- the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

General references

Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?