Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Thy tacklings are loosed
Bible References
Thy tacklings are loosed
Isaiah 33:21
but there Jehovah is unto us glorious, a place of rivers, of broad streams: no galley with oars shall go there, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Ezekiel 27:26
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
Acts 27:19
and on the third day with their own hands they cast away the ship furniture.
Then
Isaiah 33:1
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2 Chronicles 20:25
And Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder the spoil of them, and they found among them in abundance, both riches with the dead bodies, and precious things, and they stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away; and they were three days in plundering the spoil, it was so much.
The lame
1 Samuel 30:10
And David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to go over the torrent Besor.
2 Kings 7:8
And those lepers came to the extremity of the camp; and they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried thence silver and gold, and garments, and went and hid it; and they came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence, and went and hid it.
Psalm 68:12
Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.
1 Corinthians 1:27
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;