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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While they be
2 Samuel 23:6
As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away are all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;
Micah 7:4
Their best one is as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,
Drunken
Nahum 3:11
Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an enemy.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.
2 Samuel 13:28
And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, 'See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
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Ezekiel 32:22
There is Asshur, and all her assembly, Round about him are his graves, All of them are wounded, who are falling by sword,