Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Maroth
Waited carefully
General references
Bible References
Maroth
Ruth 1:20
And she said to them, Call me not Naomi call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Waited carefully
1 Samuel 4:13
And when he came, behold, Eli was sitting upon the seat by the way-side watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.
Job 30:26
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 8:15
Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, and a time of healing, and behold terror!
But
Micah 1:9
For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 45:7
forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have done it?
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Isaiah 24:12
desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, a ruin.
Jeremiah 8:15
Peace is looked for, and there is no good; a time of healing, and behold, terror.