Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

Our fathers

Bible References

If the lord

Genesis 25:22
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.
Exodus 33:14
And he said, My presence shall go, and I will give thee rest.
Numbers 14:14
and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who against us?

Why then

Deuteronomy 29:24
even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
Deuteronomy 30:17
But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and thou shalt bow down to other gods and serve them;
Psalm 77:7
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Psalm 89:49
Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
Isaiah 59:1
Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear;
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?

Our fathers

Psalm 44:1
{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:
Psalm 78:3
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

Forsaken us

Deuteronomy 31:17
And my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, and they will say in that day, Have not these evils befallen me because my God is not in my midst?
2 Chronicles 15:2
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye are with him; and if ye seek him he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him he will forsake you.
Psalm 27:9
Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Isaiah 41:17
The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Jeremiah 23:33
And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even cast you off, saith Jehovah.