Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
Bible References
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Judges 4:15
And Jehovah will discomfit Sisera and all the chariots and all the camp, with the mouth of the sword before Barak; and Sisera will descend from the chariot, and will flee on his feet
Psalm 33:16
The king was not saved by much strength: the strong one will not be delivered by much power.
Psalm 147:10
He will not delight in the strength of the horse: he will not be pleased in the legs of a man.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I turned back, and saw under the sun that not to the fleet the race, and the war not to the strong, and also not to the wise, bread; and also not to the understanding ones, riches; and also not to the knowing, favor; for time and chance will light upon all of them.
Isaiah 30:16
And ye will say, No; for upon horses we will flee: for this ye shall flee: and upon the swift will we ride; for this they pursuing you shall be swift.
Amos 2:14
And flight perished from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his power, and the mighty shall not save his soul.
Amos 9:1
I saw Jehovah standing upon the altar: and he will say, Strike the crown, and the thresholds shall tremble: and dash them in pieces upon the head of them all; and the last of them I will slay with the sword: the fleeing to them shall not flee, and he escaping to them shall not escape.
Stumble
Jeremiah 46:12
The nations heard thy shame, and thy outcry filled the land: for the strong stumbled against the strong; they two fell together.
Jeremiah 20:11
And Jehovah is with me as a strong terrible one: for this, they pursuing shall be weak, and they shall not prevail; they were greatly ashamed, for they prospered not; perpetual shame shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:32
And pride stumbled and fell, and none lifting up to it: and I kindled a fire in his cities and it shall consume all round about him.
Psalm 27:2
In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell
Isaiah 8:15
And many fainted among them and fell, and were broken, and snared, and taken.
Daniel 11:19
And he shall tarn back his face to the fortress of his land: and he was weak and he fell, and he shall not be found.
Toward
Jeremiah 46:10
And that the day to the Lord Jehovah of armies, a day of vengeance to be avenged of his adversaries: and the sword consumed and was satiated, and drunk their blood to the full; for a sacrifice to the Lord Jehovah of armies in the land of the north by the river Phrath.
Jeremiah 1:14
And Jehovah will say to me, From the north shall evil be opened upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jeremiah 4:6
Lift up the signal of Zion: save ye by flight, ye shall not stand: for I bring evil from the north, and a great breaking.
Jeremiah 6:1
Be strong, ye sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa strike the trumpet, and lift up a lifting up upon the house of the vineyard, for evil overhung from the north, and great breaking.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold me sending, and I took all the families of the north, says Jehovah, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant, and I brought them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I devoted them to destruction, and I set them for a desolation and for a hissing, and for perpetual wastes.