Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Violently

General references

Bible References

Landmarks

Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not reduce thy neighbour's border, which those of old time have marked in thine inheritance, which thou shalt possess in the land that the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed is he that reduces his neighbour's border. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:10
Do not remove the old landmark, and do not enter into the inheritance of the fatherless:
Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah were like those that move the boundaries; therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Violently

Job 1:15
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 5:5
The hungry shall eat up his harvest, and even take it out from among the thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.

General references

Proverbs 1:13
We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.