Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
What profit
Bible References
What profit
Genesis 25:32
And Esau saith, 'Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me -- birthright?'
Psalm 30:9
What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?
Jeremiah 41:8
And ten men have been found among them, and they say unto Ishmael, 'Do not put us to death, for we have things hidden in the field -- wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey.' And he forbeareth, and hath not put them to death in the midst of their brethren.
Matthew 16:26
for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Romans 6:21
what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.
Conceal
Genesis 37:20
and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'
Genesis 4:10
And He saith, 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;
Deuteronomy 17:8
When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,
2 Samuel 1:16
and David saith unto him, 'Thy blood is on thine own head, for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I -- I put to death the anointed of Jehovah.'
Job 16:18
O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.