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 they went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew all his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, even seventy persons upon one stone. Notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal escaped, 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 gat him home to his own house and to his own 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 servants that bare Joab's weapons, turned and smote Absalom and slew him.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Psalm 7:15
He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.
Psalm 9:15
The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.
Proverbs 26:27
Whoso diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein; and he that weltereth a stone, shall stumble upon it himself.
A serpent
Amos 5:19
Yea, like as when a man runneth from a lion, and a bear meeteth with him; or when he cometh into the house, and leaneth his hand upon the wall, a serpent biteth him.
Amos 9:3
Though they hide themselves upon the top of Carmel, yet shall I seek them out, and bring them from thence. Though they creep down from my sight into the deep of the sea, I shall command the serpent, even there to bite them.
General references
Exodus 21:33
"If a man open a well or dig a pit and cover it not, but that an ox or an ass fall therein,