Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Bible References

Sword

Leviticus 26:36
And upon those that are left alive of you I will send such cowardice into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursue.
Isaiah 30:16
But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be even more swift.
Jeremiah 9:21
For death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets.
Lamentations 1:20
Resh Look, O LORD; for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled; abroad the sword bereaves; at home there is as death.
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within; he that is in the field shall die with the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

The young

Lamentations 2:19
Koph Arise, cry out in the night; in the beginning of the watches; pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord; lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations 4:4
Daleth The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and there was no one to break it unto them.

General references

Jeremiah 48:43
Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:22
with thee also I will break in pieces men and women; and with thee I will break in pieces old and young; and with thee I will break in pieces young men and virgins;
Ezekiel 7:15
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within; he that is in the field shall die with the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Amos 8:13
In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.