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
If he be hasty to take anything away, who will make him restore it again? Who will say unto him, 'What doest thou?'
Job 11:10
Though he turn all things upside down, close them in, or thrust them together, who dare check him therefore?
Isaiah 14:23
and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it. and I will sweep them out with the broom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 51:58
"Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The thick wall of Babylon shall be broken, and her proud gates shall be burnt up. And the thing that the Gentiles and the people have wrought with great travail and labour shall come to naught and be consumed in the fire."
Malachi 1:4
And though Edom said, "Well, we are destroyed, we will go build up again the places that be wasted": yet sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "What they builded, that brake I down: so that it was called a cursed land and people, whom the LORD hath ever been angry withal."

He shutteth

Job 16:11
God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
1 Samuel 17:46
This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth - and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Samuel 24:18
And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt lovingly with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had locked me in thine hands, thou slewest me not.
1 Samuel 26:8
The said Abishai to David, "God hath closed in thine enemy unto thine hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him a fellowship with my spear to the earth, even one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time."
Romans 11:32
God hath wrapped all nations in unbelief, that he might have mercy on all.