Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

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Bible References

Say now

Matthew 26:73
soon after they that stood by coming up, said to Peter, certainly you are one of them, for thy speech bewrays thee.
Mark 14:70
but he denied it again. a little time after, they that stood by, still urg'd Peter, saying, you are certainly one of his disciples, for your speech shows you to be a Galilean.

There fell

Matthew 12:25
Jesus perceiving what they surmized, said to them, any kingdom once divided against itself will soon be desolate: nor can any city or house divided against itself, long subsist.
Galatians 5:15
but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.

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Mark 3:24
if a kingdom be divided against it self, that kingdom cannot last.