Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Bible References

The thing

Psalm 118:23
This came from the Lord;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
This came from the Lord
and is wonderful in our eyes?
Mark 12:11
This came from the Lord
and is wonderful in our eyes?”

We

Genesis 31:24
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
2 Samuel 13:22
Absalom didn’t say anything to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon since he disgraced his sister Tamar.
Acts 11:17
Therefore, if God gave them the same gift that He also gave to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I possibly hinder God?”

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