Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Bible References

As a bird

Proverbs 1:17
For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
Psalm 11:1
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Psalm 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

General references

1 Samuel 20:38
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not! And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
Psalm 55:7
Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;
Proverbs 4:15
avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
Proverbs 22:26
Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:
Mark 13:15
and him that is upon the housetop not come down into the house, nor enter into it to take away anything out of his house;