Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Tender mercies

General references

Bible References

Righteous

Genesis 33:13
And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Numbers 22:28
And LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou have smitten me these three times?
Deuteronomy 25:4
Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
John 4:11
The woman says to him, Sir, thou have not even a container, and the well is deep. From where then have thou the living water?

But

Genesis 37:26
And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Judges 1:7
And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [scraps] under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
1 Samuel 11:2
And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out, and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
John 19:31
The Jews therefore, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, since it was Preparation (for it was the high day of that Sabbath), they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be remove
James 2:13
For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Tender mercies

1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

General references

Acts 27:42
And a decision of the soldiers developed that they should kill the prisoners, lest any man, having swam away, might escape.