Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

Bible References

House

Judges 9:46
When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard the news, they went to the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
Judges 8:33
After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.

Vain, etc

Judges 11:3
So Jephthah left his half-brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah's gang and traveled with him.
1 Samuel 22:2
All those who were in trouble or owed someone money or were discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.
2 Chronicles 13:7
Lawless good-for-nothing men gathered around him and conspired against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was an inexperienced young man and could not resist them.
Job 30:8
Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.
Proverbs 12:11
The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks wisdom.
Acts 17:5
But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

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