Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

{To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

General references

Bible References

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Psalm 54:3
For strangers rise up against me,
and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.Selah
1 Samuel 21:7
One of Saul’s servants, detained before the Lord, was there that day. His name was Doeg the Edomite, chief of Saul’s shepherds.
1 Samuel 22:9
Then Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw Jesse’s son come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.

Told

Psalm 59:7
Look, they spew from their mouths—
sharp words from their lips.
“For who,” they say, “will hear?”
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongues are deadly arrows—
they speak deception.
With his mouth
a man speaks peaceably with his friend,
but inwardly he sets up an ambush.
Exodus 22:9
In any case of wrongdoing involving an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or anything else lost, and someone claims, ‘That’s mine,’ the case between the two parties is to come before the judges. The one the judges condemn must repay double to his neighbor.

Boastest

Psalm 10:2
In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
Psalm 94:4
They pour out arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.
Romans 1:30
slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
2 Timothy 3:2
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

O mighty

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.
Genesis 10:8
Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful man on earth.
1 Samuel 21:7
One of Saul’s servants, detained before the Lord, was there that day. His name was Doeg the Edomite, chief of Saul’s shepherds.

Goodness

Psalm 103:17
But from eternity to eternity
the Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear Him,
and His righteousness toward the grandchildren
Psalm 107:1
BOOK V
(Psalms 107–150)
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
His faithful love endures forever.
Psalm 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.
1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

General references

Acts 23:14
These men went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn curse that we won’t eat anything until we have killed Paul.
James 4:16
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

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