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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
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.
Jeremiah 38:4
And the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death. For in this way he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the good of this people, but the hurt.
Matthew 27:20
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
The contempt
Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honored man lived in it.
Job 34:19
How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them are the work of His hands.
Exodus 32:27
And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Each man put his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and kill each one his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred.
Numbers 25:14
And the name of the Israelite who was killed, he who was struck with the woman of Midian, was Zimri, the son of Salu, ruler of a chief house of the Simeonites.
Nehemiah 5:7
And my heart within myself ruled, and I rebuked the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact interest, each one from his brother. And I held a great gathering against them.
Nehemiah 13:4
And before this, Eliashib the priest, who was set over the rooms of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah.
2 Corinthians 5:16
So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.
That i
Esther 4:11
And the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his, execution, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter so that he may live. But I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
Proverbs 24:11
Deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling to be killed, unless you hold back.
Amos 5:11
So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.
Micah 7:3
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.