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 coming unto his father's house at Ophrah, he slew his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, upon a stone; yet 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 ass and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
2 Samuel 18:15
And ten young men that bore Joab's armour surrounded and smote Absalom and slew 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 made a pit and deepened it and shall fall into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 9:15
The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid their own foot is taken.
Proverbs 26:27
Whosoever digs a pit shall fall therein, and he that rolls a stone, it will 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 in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out of there; and though they hide from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
General references
Exodus 21:33
And if someone shall open a pit or if someone shall dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or an ass falls in it,