Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Persecutors
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Bible References
Persecutors
Deuteronomy 28:49
"And the LORD shall bring a nation upon thee from afar, even from the end of the world, as swift as an eagle flyeth: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Isaiah 5:26
And he shall give a token unto a strange people, and call unto them in a far country: and behold, they shall come hastily with speed.
Isaiah 30:16
For ye have said, "No, but we will escape through horses!" Therefore shall ye flee. And, "We will get us up upon swift beasts!" Therefore shall your persecutors be swifter.
Jeremiah 4:13
For lo, he cometh down like as a cloud, and his chariots are like a stormy wind: his horsemen are swifter than the Eagle. Woe unto us, for we are destroyed.
Hosea 8:1
Set the horn to thy mouth, and blow: get thee swiftly as an Eagle into the house of the LORD: for they have broken my covenant, and transgressed my law.
Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than the cats of the mountain, and bite sorer than the wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come by great heaps from far, they flee hastily to devour as the Eagle.
Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth unto the west: so shall the coming of the son of man be.
They pursued
Amos 2:14
so that the swift shall not escape, neither the strong be able to do anything: no, the giant shall not save his own life.
Amos 9:1
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar, and he said, "Smite the door check, that the posts may shake withal. For their covetousness shall fall upon all their heads, and their posterity shall be slain with the sword. They shall not flee away, there shall not one of them escape, nor be delivered.
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Jeremiah 52:8
And so the Chaldeans followed upon them, and took Zedekiah the king in the field of Jericho, when his host was run from him.