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
A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "You also are certainly one of them, for your speech betrays you."
Mark 14:70
A second time he continued to deny it. After a little the by-standers began to say to Peter again, "Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean."

There fell

Matthew 12:25
Because Jesus knew what was in their minds, he said to them. "Any kingdom divided against itself will become desolate; and any city or household divided against himself will not stand.
Galatians 5:15
But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

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Mark 3:24
If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;