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
And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men around to take them.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea?
1 Samuel 25:29
Yet a man hath risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thy enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the middle of a sling.
2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
As a bird
Psalm 25:15
My eyes are ever towards the LORD; for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalm 91:3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Proverbs 6:5
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
2 Timothy 2:26
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.