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 will come to his father's house at Ophrah, and will kill his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men upon one stone: and Jotham the young son of Jerubbaal will be left, for he was hid.
2 Samuel 17:23
And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father.
2 Samuel 18:15
And ten boys lifting up Joab's arms will surround and strike Absalom, and kill him.
Esther 7:10
And they will hang Haman upon the tree that he preps for Mordecai. And the wrath of the king subsided.
Psalm 7:15
He dug a pit, and he will dig it out, and he will fall into the pitfall he will make.
Psalm 9:15
The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it
Proverbs 26:27
He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him.
A serpent
Amos 5:19
According as a man will flee from the face of the lion and the bear struck upon him, and he came into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and the serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3
And if they shall hide in the head of Carmel, from thence will I search and take them; and if they shall be concealed from before mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, from thence I will command the serpent, and he bit them.
General references
Exodus 21:33
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass: