Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Bible References

Incline

Psalm 78:2
I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,
Matthew 13:35
that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, 'I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

Parable

Numbers 23:7
And he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'From Aram he doth lead me -- Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come -- curse for me Jacob, And come -- be indignant with Israel.
Ezekiel 20:49
And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?
Matthew 13:11
And he answering said to them that -- 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

Dark

Proverbs 1:6
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Daniel 8:23
'And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the perfecting of the transgressors, stand up doth a king, fierce of face, and understanding hidden things;
Luke 12:3
because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.
2 Corinthians 3:12
Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,