Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
The blessing
Bible References
The blessing
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Proverbs 29:8
Scoffers set a city in a flame, but wise men turn away wrath.
Genesis 41:38
And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?
Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you that sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 32:20
And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried out to heaven.
Job 22:30
He will deliver [even] him who is not innocent. Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now there was found in it a poor wise man. And he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.
It
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a base fellow whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his te
Esther 3:8
And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people, nor do they keep the king's
Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.