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 unto 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, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
But
Micah 1:9
For her wound is incurable; for it has come unto Judah; it has come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be calamity in a city, and the LORD has not done it?
General references
Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with destruction.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!