Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Bible References

Every

Ezekiel 18:2
“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel,

The fathers eat sour grapes [they sin],
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
1 Samuel 24:13
As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.

As is

Ezekiel 16:3
and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem (all of Israel), “Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.
1 Kings 21:16
When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
2 Kings 17:11
There they burned incense on all the high places, just as the [pagan] nations whom the Lord had deported before them; and they did evil and contemptible things, provoking the Lord [to anger].
2 Kings 21:9
But they did not listen; and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons (descendants) of Israel.
Ezra 9:1
When these things were completed, the officials came to me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, but have committed the repulsive acts of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Psalm 106:35

But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations
And learned their ways,