Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
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Jeremiah 38:1
And Shephatiah son of Mattan, will hear, and Gedaliah son of Pashur, and Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashur son of Malchiah, the words which Jeremiah was speaking to all the people, saying,
Esther 7:4
For we were sold, I and my people, to cut off, to kill and to destroy. And if for servants and for maids we were sold, I was silent, but the enemy made not even for the loss of the king.
Job 31:34
, If I, shall fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, and I will be silent and not go out of my door.
Proverbs 24:11
If thou shalt refrain to deliver those being brought to death, and those going to be slain;
Proverbs 31:8
Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the judgment of all the sons of the surviving.
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Genesis 47:18
And that year will be ended, and they will come to him in the second year, and will say to him, We will not hide from my lord if the silver was spent; and the possession of the cattle to my lord; and there was not left before my lord except but our bodies and our lands.