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 men who were lepersat the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die?
Enter
Jeremiah 4:5
Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, 'Assemble, and let us go 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 for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.'So we are living 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, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us."
Water
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land."
Numbers 5:18
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;
Psalm 69:21
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
Matthew 27:34
they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.