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
Four men with a skin disease were at the entrance to the gate. They said to each other, “Why just sit here until we die?
Enter
Jeremiah 4:5
Declare in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:
Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land.
Cry out loudly and say:
Assemble yourselves,
and let’s flee to the fortified cities.
Cry out loudly and say:
Assemble yourselves,
and let’s flee to the fortified cities.
Jeremiah 35:11
However, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: Come, let’s go into Jerusalem to get away from the Chaldean and Aramean armies. So we have been living in Jerusalem.”
2 Samuel 20:6
So David said to Abishai, “Sheba son of Bichri will do more harm to us than Absalom. Take your lord’s soldiers and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”
Water
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:
I am about to feed them wormwood
and give them poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has spread throughout the land.
and give them poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness
Numbers 5:18
After the priest has the woman stand before the Lord, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering for remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water 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 poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
Psalm 69:21 Instead, they gave me gall for my food,
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lamentations 3:19
ז ZayinRemember my affliction and my homelessness,
the wormwood and the poison.
the wormwood and the poison.
Matthew 27:34
they gave Him wine mixed with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink it.