Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

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Bible References

As a breach

1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
Psalm 62:3
How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Ezekiel 13:10
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash:
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell -- and great was its fall."
Luke 6:49
But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."

Cometh

Isaiah 29:5
But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
Job 36:18
Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
Psalm 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
1 Thessalonians 5:1
But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

General references

Proverbs 2:15
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths: