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
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
Job 11:10
If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
Isaiah 14:23
"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:58
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary."
Malachi 1:4
Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says the LORD of hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever."

He shutteth

Job 16:11
God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
1 Samuel 17:46
Today, the LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
1 Samuel 24:18
You have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, because when the LORD had delivered me up into your hand, you did not kill me.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."
Romans 11:32
For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.