Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Destroy

General references

Bible References

Children

Isaiah 3:4
And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.
2 Kings 11:1
And Athaliah is mother of Ahaziah, and she hath seen that her son is dead, and she riseth, and destroyeth all the seed of the kingdom;
Nahum 3:13
Lo, thy people are women in thy midst, To thine enemies thoroughly opened Have been the gates of thy land, Consumed hath fire thy bars.

Lead thee

Isaiah 9:15
Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.
Numbers 6:23
'Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, Thus ye do bless the sons of Israel, saying to them,
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?
Matthew 15:14
let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

Destroy

Matthew 23:14
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.

General references

Leviticus 25:14
'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;