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 the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.
Ezekiel 27:26
Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.
Acts 27:19
And on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side.
Then
Isaiah 33:1
Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
2 Chronicles 20:25
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.
The lame
1 Samuel 30:10
And David, with four hundred men, went on: but two hundred of them were overcome with weariness, and not able to go across the stream.
2 Kings 7:8
And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.
Psalm 68:12
Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.
1 Corinthians 1:27
But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;