Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
But the
As the fat of lambs
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Bible References
But the
Psalm 68:2
Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
Judges 5:31
So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.
Luke 13:3
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.
2 Peter 2:12
But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;
As the fat of lambs
Deuteronomy 33:14
And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons,
Smoke
Genesis 19:28
And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.
Leviticus 3:3
And he is to give of the peace-offering, as an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,
Deuteronomy 29:20
The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is an all-burning fire.
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Jeremiah 51:40
I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.