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 the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Isaiah 25:5
As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Isaiah 37:36
The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

As chaff

Isaiah 17:13
The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Job 21:18
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.

At an

Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
Psalm 46:5
God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
Psalm 76:5
Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

General references

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