Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Bible References

That i had

Psalm 55:6
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.
Psalm 120:5
Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech,
For I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I am
Like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
Or a first-ripe fig which I crave.

For

Jeremiah 5:7
“Why should I pardon you?
Your sons have forsaken Me
And sworn by those who are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
They committed adultery
And trooped to the harlot’s house.
Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers;
For the land mourns because of the curse.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also is evil
And their might is not right.
Ezekiel 22:10
In you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.
Hosea 4:2
There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

An assembly

Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are You, O Lord, that I would plead my case with You;
Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?
Hosea 5:7
They have dealt treacherously against the Lord,
For they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their land.
Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
Micah 7:2
The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men;
Her priests have profaned the sanctuary.
They have done violence to the law.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which He loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

General references

Judges 16:6
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you.”
Psalm 55:7
“Behold, I would wander far away,
I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.
Hosea 7:3
With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do You make me see iniquity,
And cause me to look on wickedness?
Yes, destruction and violence are before me;
Strife exists and contention arises.