Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Do
Bible References
Do
2 Kings 7:3
Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
Enter
Jeremiah 4:5 Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,
“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Cry aloud and say,
‘Assemble yourselves, and let us go
Into the fortified cities.’
“
Cry aloud and say,
‘
Into the fortified cities.’
Jeremiah 35:11
But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come and let us go to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.’ So we have dwelt in Jerusalem.”
2 Samuel 20:6
And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord’s servants and pursue him, so that he does not find for himself fortified cities and escape from our sight.”
Water
Jeremiah 9:15
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Jeremiah 23:15
“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,
‘Behold, I am going tofeed them wormwood
And make them drink poisonous water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”
‘Behold, I am going to
And make them drink poisonous water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”
Numbers 5:18
The priest shall then have the woman stand before the Lord and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and place the grain offering of memorial in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32 “For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes ofpoison,
Their clusters, bitter.
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of
Their clusters, bitter.
Psalm 69:21 They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst theygave me vinegar to drink.
And for my thirst they
Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
Matthew 27:34 they gave Him wine to drink mixed with gall; and after tasting it, He was unwilling to drink.