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 remove thy neighbour's mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to enjoy it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
"'Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Proverbs 22:28
Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.
Hosea 5:10
Yet are the princes of Judah become like them, that remove the landmarks: therefore will I pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Violently

Job 1:15
the Sabeans came in violently, and took them all away: yea, they have slain thy servants with the sword, and I only ran my way, to tell thee."
Job 5:5
that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

General references

Proverbs 1:13
So shall we find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils.