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
Scornful men bring a city into a snare. Wise men turn away anger.
Genesis 41:38
and he said to them: We will never find a better man than Joseph. He is a man who has God's Spirit in him.
Genesis 45:8
It was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me like a father to Pharaoh. He made me lord over his entire household, and ruler of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 32:20
King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, prayed about this and called to heaven.
Job 22:30
He will deliver even those who are guilty. They will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now there was found in it a poor wise man. By his wisdom he delivered the city. Yet no man remembered that same poor man.
It
2 Samuel 20:1
A worthless character named Sheba son of Bikri lived at Gilgal. He was of the tribe of Benjamin. He blew the trumpet and called out: Down with David! We will not follow him! Men of Israel, let us go home!
Esther 3:8
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of any other nation. They do not keep the king's laws. For this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.
Esther 9:1
Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to rule over them the opposite occurred, and the Jews had rule over their enemies.
James 3:6
The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).