Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker who shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened.
1 Samuel 19:11
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house to watch him and to slay him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be dead.
2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant.
Psalm 10:8
He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.
Proverbs 4:16
For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
Micah 2:1
Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.
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Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?