Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

Bible References

General references

Proverbs 18:13
For him that answers a word before he hears, it is folly and reproach unto him.
2 Samuel 16:1
And when David was a little past the top of the mountain, behold, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, met him with a couple of asses saddled and upon them two hundred loaves of bread and one hundred bunches of raisins and one hundred of summer fruits and a bottle of wine.
2 Samuel 19:24
Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, also came down to meet the king and had neither washed his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
Acts 24:5
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and prince of the seditious sect of the Nazarenes,