Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Bible References

Disappointeth

Job 12:16
With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Nehemiah 4:15
When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.
Psalm 33:10
The LORDbrings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORDupholds the righteous.
Proverbs 21:30
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
Isaiah 19:3
and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;

Their hands

Psalm 21:11
Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Acts 12:11
When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."
Acts 23:12
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

General references

Genesis 31:22
When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
2 Samuel 11:9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
Luke 20:8
And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
John 7:53
[[They went each to his own house,
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."

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