Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

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Bible References

To the pot

Ezekiel 24:11
Then set it empty on its coals so that it may be hot and its copper may glow and its filthiness may be melted in it. Let its rust be consumed.
Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows blow fiercely and the fire consumes the lead. The refining goes on in vain, but the wicked are not separated.

Bring

Ezekiel 9:5
I heard God say to the other men: Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one! Have mercy on no one.
Ezekiel 11:7
I, the Lord Jehovah, say to you: 'This city is a cooking pot all right, but what is the meat? The corpses of those you have killed! You will not be here. I will throw you out of the city!'
Joshua 10:22
Then Joshua said: Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me.

Let no

Joshua 7:16
So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
1 Samuel 14:40
Then Saul said to them: All of you stand over there. Jonathan and I will stand over here. Do whatever you think best, they answered.
2 Samuel 8:2
He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.
Joel 3:3
They cast lots for my people, and traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Obadiah 1:11
In that day you stood on the other side! In that day strangers carried away his wealth. Foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem! It was as if you were one of them!
Jonah 1:7
The sailors said to each other, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know whom to blame for this evil. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
Nahum 3:10
She went into captivity and was exiled. Her children were smashed to death at every street corner. Soldiers tossed dice for her important men, and all her best men were bound in chains.

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Ezekiel 11:6
You have killed many people in this city and have filled its streets with corpses.'