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 shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire:
Isaiah 25:5
Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; as the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the terrible ones is brought low.
Isaiah 31:3
And the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall perish together.
Isaiah 37:36
And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.

As chaff

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

At an

Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall come suddenly in an instant.
Psalm 46:5
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.
Psalm 76:5
The stout-hearted 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 may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

General references

Psalm 48:4
For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;