Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

General references

Bible References

The multitude

Isaiah 10:16
Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
Isaiah 25:5
As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

As chaff

Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Job 21:18
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on.

At an

Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.
Psalm 46:5
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God will help her, and that right early.
Psalm 76:5
The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

General references

Psalm 48:4
For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together.

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