Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Flesh
General references
Bible References
Cursed
Psalm 62:9
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
Isaiah 30:1
Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.
Isaiah 36:6
When you trust Egypt, you trust a broken stick for a staff. If you lean on it, it stabs your hand and goes through it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for everyone who trusts him.
Ezekiel 29:6
Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah. This is because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.
Flesh
2 Chronicles 32:8
Jehovah our God fights on our side. The Assyrians must rely on human power alone. These words encouraged the army of Judah.
Isaiah 31:3
The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.
Whose
Psalm 18:21
I have kept the ways of Jehovah and I have not wickedly turned away from my God.
Isaiah 59:15
Truth is missing. Those who turn away from evil become victims. Jehovah sees it, and what he saw displeased him because there is no justice.
Ezekiel 6:9
Then those who escape will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive. I was hurt by their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and by their eyes, which lusted after idols. They will hate themselves for the evil and disgusting things that they have done.
Hosea 1:2
When Jehovah first spoke through Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go and marry an adulterous wife and have children with her for the land commits flagrant adultery. They have abandoned Jehovah.
Hebrews 3:12
Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God.
General references
2 Kings 7:20
And that is just what happened! He died. The people at the city gate trampled him to death.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.