Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

The serpent

Bible References

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Job 34:22

“There is no darkness nor deep shadow
Where the evildoers may hide themselves.
Jeremiah 23:23

“Am I a God who is at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God far away?”

The serpent

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent
With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

General references

Numbers 21:6
Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died.
Psalm 21:8

Your hand will reach out and defeat all your enemies;
Your right hand will reach those who hate you.
Jeremiah 52:8
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and his entire army was scattered from him.
Ezekiel 8:8
He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” And when I had dug into the wall, behold, there was an entrance.
Ezekiel 11:8
You have feared the sword; so I will bring a sword upon you,” says the Lord God.
Matthew 24:28
Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will flock together.