Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
The unclean
He walketh
Seeking
Bible References
The unclean
Matthew 12:43
But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.
He walketh
Job 1:7
Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
Job 2:2
Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Dry
Judges 6:37
behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken."
Psalm 63:1
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Isaiah 35:1
The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
Ezekiel 47:8
Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
Seeking
Proverbs 4:16
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
Isaiah 48:22
"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.