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Summary
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
The contempt
Bible References
Did i
Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his confidence in Jehovah is protected.
Jeremiah 38:4
And the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; for why should he weaken the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking to them according to these words? for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Matthew 27:20
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
The contempt
Job 22:8
But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.
Job 34:19
How then to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.
Exodus 32:27
And he said to them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his hip; go and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbour.
Numbers 25:14
And the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, the prince of a father's house of the Simeonites.
Nehemiah 5:7
And I consulted with myself; and I remonstrated with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother! And I set a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 13:4
And before this, Eliashib the priest, who had the oversight of the chambers of the house of our God, a kinsman of Tobijah,
2 Corinthians 5:16
So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.
That i
Esther 4:11
All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law, to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live; and I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Proverbs 24:11
Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them.
Micah 7:3
Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.