Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
General references
Bible References
That
Judges 9:5
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy men, upon one stone, but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
2 Samuel 18:15
And ten young men who bore Joab's armor encompassed about and smote Absalom, and killed him.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.
Psalm 7:15
He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 9:15
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Proverbs 26:27
He who digs a pit shall fall in it, and he who rolls a stone, it shall return upon him.
A serpent
Amos 5:19
As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3
And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
General references
Exodus 21:33
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,