2 Chronicles 18:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

This fellow

Bread of affliction

Psalm 80:5

Psalm 102:9

Isaiah 30:20

Until i return

Bible References

This fellow

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons.”

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live!”

Bread of affliction

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

For I have eaten ashes like bread
And mingled my drink with weeping

Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

Until i return

It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land with the dry.’

His ways

prosper at all times;

Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;
As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil,
But a fool is arrogant and careless.

For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.