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
And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, who said one to another, Why shall we stay here until we die?
Enter
Jeremiah 4:5
Declare ye in Judah and publish in Jerusalem and say, Blow ye the shofar in the land; cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
Jeremiah 35:11
But it came to pass, nevertheless, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem from before the army of the Chaldeans and from before of the army of the Syrians: and so we remain in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 20:6
And David said to Abishai, Now Sheba, the son of Bichri, shall do us more harm than Absalom; take thou thy lord's slaves and pursue after him lest he find fenced cities and escape us.
Water
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said against those prophets: Behold, I will cause them to eat wormwood and make them drink the waters of gall, for from the prophets of Jerusalem is hypocrisy gone forth upon all the land.
Numbers 5:18
And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the LORD and shall uncover the woman's head and put the present of remembrance in her hands, which is the present of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that brings the curse.
Deuteronomy 32:32
Therefore, their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are very bitter.
Psalm 69:21
They also gave me gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lamentations 3:19
Zain Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Matthew 27:34
they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and when he had tasted of it, he would not drink.