Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Bible References

He breaketh

Job 9:12
Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?
Job 11:10
If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?
Isaiah 14:23
And will make her a possession for the bittern, And marshes of water, - And will sweep it with the besom of destruction, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:58
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts - The broad walls of Babylon, shall be laid utterly bare, And, her lofty gates, with fire, shall be burned, - And peoples shall labour for emptiness, And populations, for the fire, shall weary themselves.
Malachi 1:4
Whereas Edom, may say, We are laid waste, but we will again build the desolate places, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, They, may build, but, I, will pull down, - and men shall call them, The Boundary of Lawlessness, and, The people with whom Yahweh hath indignation unto times age-abiding;

He shutteth

Job 16:11
GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.
1 Samuel 17:46
This day, will Yahweh deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee, and will give thy dead body and the dead bodies of the host of Philistines, this day, unto the birds of heaven, and unto the wild beasts of the earth, - that all the earth may know that Israel hath a God;
1 Samuel 24:18
Thou, then, hast told to-day, how thou hast dealt with me, for good, - how, when Yahweh had surrendered me into thy hand, thou didst not slay me.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai unto David, God hath surrendered, to-day, thine enemy, into thy hand: Now, therefore, let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth, at one stroke, I, will not do it twice.
Romans 11:32
For God hath shut up all together, in a refusal to yield, in order that, upon all, he may bestow mercy.