Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Bible References

A by-word

Job 30:9
"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.
1 Kings 9:7
then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.
Psalm 44:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.

As a tabret

Genesis 31:27
Why did you hide [your intention] to flee and {trick me}, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?
Isaiah 5:12
And [there] will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine [at] their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.