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 death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
Jeremiah 23:23
A God near am I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?

The serpent

Isaiah 27:1
In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea.

General references

Numbers 21:6
And Jehovah sendeth among the people the burning serpents, and they bite the people, and much people of Israel die;
Psalm 21:8
Thy hand cometh to all Thine enemies, Thy right hand doth find Thy haters.
Jeremiah 52:8
And the forces of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his forces have been scattered from him,
Ezekiel 8:8
and He saith unto me, 'Son of man, dig, I pray thee, through the wall;' and I dig through the wall, and lo, an opening.
Ezekiel 11:8
A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
Matthew 24:28
for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.