Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
An adder
Bible References
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Proverbs 5:11
And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness,
Isaiah 28:3
With the feet shall the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be trodden down.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesied in falsehood, and the priests will spread out with their hands; and my people loved it thus: and what will ye do to its last part
Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, in my stretching out my hand over Egypt, and my bringing forth the sons of Israel from the midst of them.
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.
Romans 6:21
Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death.
Biteth
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He digging a ditch shall fall into it; he breaking down a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Jeremiah 8:17
For behold me sending serpents, vipers among you, which to them no hissing, and they bit you, says Jehovah.
Amos 5:19
According as a man will flee from the face of the lion and the bear struck upon him, and he came into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and the serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3
And if they shall hide in the head of Carmel, from thence will I search and take them; and if they shall be concealed from before mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, from thence I will command the serpent, and he bit them.
An adder
Isaiah 59:5
They plundered vipers' eggs, and they will weave spiders webs: he eating from their eggs shall die, and being crushed, it shall break forth a viper.