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 all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread.
1 Samuel 19:11
Saul sent messengers to watch David's house and kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife advised him: If you do not save yourself tonight, you will be dead tomorrow!
2 Samuel 13:28
Absalom gave an order to his servants: Watch now and when Amnon begins to feel good from drinking too much wine, I will tell you, Attack Amnon. Then kill him. Do not be afraid. I give this order. Be strong and courageous.
Psalm 10:8
He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. He searches for victims.
Proverbs 4:16
They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).
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Proverbs 6:27
Can a man have fire in his lap and his clothes not be burned?