Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
While they be
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Bible References
While they be
2 Samuel 23:6
But the sons of Belial are all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;
Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.
Drunken
Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 13:28
And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then slay him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
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Ezekiel 32:22
There is Asshur and all his assemblage, his graves round about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword;