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 people, but sin is a reproach to the nations.
Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath.
Genesis 41:38
And Pharaoh said unto his slaves, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you that sent me here, but God; and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 32:20
And for this cause Hezekiah, the king, and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
Job 22:30
He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no one remembered that same poor man.
It
2 Samuel 20:1
And a man of Belial happened to be there, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a man of Jemini, and he blew the shofar, saying, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O Israel.
Esther 3:8
And Haman said unto 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 different from all other people; neither do they observe the king's laws: therefore, it is not profitable for the king to allow them to remain.
Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his law drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, it was turned to the contrary; for the Jews took dominion over those that hated them.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our nature; and it is set on fire of hell.