Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Bible References

Our soul

1 Samuel 23:26
Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to capture them.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue [with three thousand men]? A dead dog, a single flea?
1 Samuel 25:29
Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound in the [precious] bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies—those He will hurl out as from the center of a sling.
2 Samuel 17:2
I will strike while he is weary and exhausted, and terrify him; and all the people with him will flee [in terror]. Then I will attack the king alone,

As a bird

Psalm 25:15

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will bring my feet out of the net.
Psalm 91:3

For He will save you from the trap of the fowler,
And from the deadly pestilence.
Proverbs 6:5

Tear yourself away like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Jeremiah 5:26

‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers who lie in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
Jeremiah 18:22

Let an outcry be heard from their houses
When You suddenly bring [a troop of] raiders upon them,
For they have dug a pit to capture me
And have hidden snares for my feet.
2 Timothy 2:26
and that they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.