Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
To them
Chief
Bible References
To them
Luke 6:24
But it is too bad for you rich people because you have [already] received [all] the comforts [you are going to get].
Luke 12:17
so he thought to himself, 'What should I do, because I do not have any [more] room to store my crops?'
James 5:5
You people have basked in luxury [here] on earth and lived lives devoted to pleasure. You have fattened yourselves [as sacrificial oxen] for the day of slaughter.
1 Peter 5:7
Place all your anxious cares upon God [in prayer], because He genuinely cares about you.
Chief
James 1:18
It was God's purpose to bring us into being [spiritually] by the message of truth, so that we could become a kind of "firstfruits" of those He created. [Note: "Firstfruits" here suggests either that Christians are the best of all of God's creatures (Num. 18:12), or that they were the first to be converted, with many more to come].