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, exalteth a nation, but, a reproach to any people, is sin.
Proverbs 29:8
Men given to mockery, inflame a city, - but, wise men, turn away anger.
Genesis 41:38
and Pharaoh said unto his servants, - Can we find such a one, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?
Genesis 45:8
Now, therefore it was not ye, who sent me hither, but, God, himself, - who also appointed me to be a father to Pharaoh, and a lord to all his house, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 32:20
And Hezekiah the king and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed concerning this,-and made outcry unto the heavens,
Job 22:30
He shall deliver the innocent, and thou shalt escape by the pureness of thy hands.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
but there was found therein, a man, poor but wise, and, he, delivered the city by his wisdom, - yet, no one, remembered that poor man.
It
2 Samuel 20:1
Now, in that place, there happened to be an abandoned man, whose name, was Sheba son of Bichri, a man of Benjamin, - so he blew a horn, and said - We have no share in David, Nor inheritance have we in the son of Jesse, Every man to his home, O Israel!
Esther 3:8
Then said Haman unto King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people, scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples, throughout all the provinces of thy kingdom, - whose laws, are diverse from every people, and, the laws of the king, they observe not, for the king, therefore, it is not fit, to suffer them.
Esther 9:1
And, in the twelfth month, the same, is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day thereof, when the word of the king and his edict arrived to be put in execution, - on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, though it, was changed, so that the Jews themselves should have power over them who hated them,
James 3:6
And, the tongue, is a fire, - as , the world of unrighteousness, the tongue, becometh fixed among our members, that which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the wheel of our natural life, and is set on fire, by gehenna!