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
You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the landmark: 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; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone am escaped to tell you.
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth.

General references

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