Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

The inhabitants

Bible References

We have been in

Isaiah 37:3
"Here is what Hezekiah says," they told him. "This day is a day of trouble, rebuke, and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no energy to deliver them.
2 Kings 19:3
They announced to him:
Hosea 13:13
When the time of childbirth comes, he will be so foolish that he will refuse to be born."

We have not

Exodus 5:22
So Moses returned to the LORD and asked him, "LORD, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why have you sent me here?
Joshua 7:7
"Lord GOD," Joshua asked, "Why have you brought this people across the Jordan River? To hand us over to the Amorites so we'll be destroyed? Wouldn't it have been better for us to be content to settle on the other side of the Jordan?
1 Samuel 11:13
But Saul said, "Let no one be put to death this day, because today the LORD has delivered Israel."
1 Samuel 14:45
Then the army told Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who brought about this great deliverance in Israel? As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head will fall to the ground, because today he did this with God's help."

The inhabitants

Psalm 17:14
from men, LORD, by your hand from men who belong to this world, whose reward is only in this life. But as for your treasured ones, may their stomachs be full, may their children have an abundance, and may they leave wealth to their offspring.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.

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