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 in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.
Ezekiel 27:26
"Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
Acts 27:19
And on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.

Then

Isaiah 33:1
Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
2 Chronicles 20:25
When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found among them, in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.

The lame

1 Samuel 30:10
But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.
2 Kings 7:8
And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.
Psalm 68:12
"The kings of the armies--they flee, they flee!" The women at home divide the spoil--
1 Corinthians 1:27
But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

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