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.

General references

Bible References

While they be

2 Samuel 23:6
when the unthrifty men are all of them as thorns taken out of their places, which cannot be taken with hands.
Micah 7:4
The best of them is but as a thistle, and the most righteous of them is but as a brier in the hedge. But when the day of thy preachers cometh, that thou shalt be visited: then shall they be wasted away.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night.

Drunken

Nahum 3:11
Even so shalt thou also be drunken, and hide thyself, and seek some help against thine enemy.
1 Samuel 25:36
And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.
2 Samuel 13:28
Then Absalom commanded his young men, saying, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I bid you smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not, for it is I that bid you. Be bold therefore and play the lusty bloods."
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.

General references

Ezekiel 32:22
Assyria is there also with his company, and their graves round about, which were slain and fell all with the sword,