Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

General references

Bible References

And

Habakkuk 1:9

“They all come for violence;
Their horde of faces moves [eagerly] forward,
They gather prisoners like sand.
Habakkuk 2:5

“Moreover, wine is treacherous and betrays the arrogant man,
So that he does not stay at home.
His appetite is large like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples [as if he owned them].
Isaiah 14:16

“Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will consider you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
Jeremiah 25:9
behold (hear this), I will send for all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant [to enact My plan], and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing [that is, an object of warning and ridicule] and an everlasting desolation.

General references

Ezekiel 32:3
Thus says the Lord God,

“I will spread out My net over you
With a company of many nations,
And they will bring you up in My net.