Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

General references

Bible References

Thousand

Leviticus 26:8
Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one man pursue a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
Joshua 23:10
One of you routed a thousand because the Lord your God was fighting for you, as He promised.
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one is pursuing them,
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Jeremiah 37:10
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire Chaldean army that is fighting with you, and there remained among them only the badly wounded men, each in his tent, they would get up and burn this city down.”

Till ye

Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate,
your cities burned with fire;
foreigners devour your fields
before your very eyes—
a desolation demolished by foreigners.
Isaiah 37:3
They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
Nehemiah 1:2
Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah, and I questioned them about Jerusalem and the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile.
Zephaniah 3:12
I will leave
a meek and humble people among you,
and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
Zechariah 13:8
In the whole land—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
two-thirds will be cut off and die,
but a third will be left in it.
Matthew 24:21
For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!

A beacon

Isaiah 6:13
Though a tenth will remain in the land,
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed is the stump.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
John 15:2
Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
Romans 11:17
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

General references

Jeremiah 52:8
The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army was scattered from him.
Ezekiel 11:8
You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

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