Genesis 37:24

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Summary

Genesis 37:24

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

And cast

Psalm 35:7

Lamentations 4:20

The pit

General references

Genesis 49:23

Bible References

And cast

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord’s anointed,
Was captured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”

The pit

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

You have put me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.

A Song of Ascents.
Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord.

Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

General references

“The archers bitterly attacked him,
And shot at him and harassed him;