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 one told David, saying, "Ahithophel is one of them that have conspired with Absalom." Then said David, "O LORD, turn the counsel of Ahithophel unto foolishness."
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his own house and to his own city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Esther 6:4
And the king said, "Who is in the court?" For Haman was gone into the court without before the king's house, that he might speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the tree, that he had prepared for him.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Esther 9:25
and how Esther went and spake to the king, that through letters his wicked device - which he imagined against the Jews - might be turned upon his own head, and how he and his sons were hanged on the tree.
Psalm 7:15
He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.
Psalm 9:15
The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.
Psalm 35:7
For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved.
Luke 1:51
He showeth strength with his arm, he scattereth them that are proud in the imagination of their hearts.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent."

Of the froward

Psalm 18:26
With the clean thou shalt be clean, and with the froward thou shalt be froward. {TYNDALE: With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt be froward also.}
Proverbs 3:32
for the LORD abhorreth the froward, but his secret is among the righteous.

General references

Genesis 31:22
Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Jacob was fled.
2 Samuel 11:9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's palace with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
Luke 20:8
And Jesus said unto them, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things."
John 7:53
And every man went unto his own house.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent."