Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Of the froward

Bible References

Taketh

2 Samuel 15:31
And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Esther 6:4
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman came into the outward court of the king's house to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.
Esther 9:25
But when [the matter] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Psalm 7:15
He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 9:15
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
Luke 1:51
He did a mighty work by his arm. He scattered the proud in the mentality of their heart.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.

Of the froward

Psalm 18:26
With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.
Proverbs 3:32
For the perverse man is an abomination to LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

General references

Genesis 31:22
And 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 do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
John 7:53
And each man went to his house.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.