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 or deep shadow
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Jeremiah 23:23
“Am I a God who is near,” declares the Lord,
“And not a God far off?

The serpent

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

General references

Numbers 21:6
The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
Psalm 21:8
Your hand will find out all your enemies;
Your right hand will find out 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 all his army was scattered from him.
Ezekiel 8:8
He said to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance.
Ezekiel 11:8
You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you,” the Lord God declares.
Matthew 24:28
Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

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