Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Bible References

O god

Psalm 7:15
He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made.
Psalm 58:9
Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns whether green or ablaze wrath will sweep them away like a storm.
Psalm 59:12
The sin of their mouth is the word on their lips. They will be caught in their own conceit; for they speak curses and lies.

Pit

Proverbs 15:11
Since Sheol and Abaddon lie open in the LORD's presence, how much more the hearts of human beings!
Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satiated, and neither are human eyes.
Isaiah 38:17
Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back.

Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days

Psalm 5:6
You will destroy those who speak lies. The LORD abhors the person of bloodshed and deceit.
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab brought him aside within the gateway to talk to him alone and then stabbed him in the abdomen. So he died for shedding the blood of Joab's brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 20:9
Joab asked Amasa, "Is everything going well with you, my brother?" As Joab took Amasa by his beard to greet him,
1 Kings 2:5
"Furthermore, you're aware of what Zeruiah's son Joab did to me and to those two commanders of the armies of Israel, Ner's son Abner and Jether's son Amasa, whom he killed, and how he shed the blood of wartime during times of peace, staining the very belt he wears around his waist and the sandals he wears on his feet.
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab brought him aside within the gateway to talk to him alone and then stabbed him in the abdomen. So he died for shedding the blood of Joab's brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 20:9
Joab asked Amasa, "Is everything going well with you, my brother?" As Joab took Amasa by his beard to greet him,
1 Kings 2:5
"Furthermore, you're aware of what Zeruiah's son Joab did to me and to those two commanders of the armies of Israel, Ner's son Abner and Jether's son Amasa, whom he killed, and how he shed the blood of wartime during times of peace, staining the very belt he wears around his waist and the sandals he wears on his feet.
Job 15:32
This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant.
Proverbs 10:27
Fearing the LORD prolongs life, but the wicked will not live long.
Ecclesiastes 7:17
Do not excel at wickedness, nor be a fool. Why die before your time?
Matthew 27:4
saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood."

General references

2 Samuel 20:12
While Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway, everybody who passed by was stopping to stare at him, so when the soldier saw that all of the army was stopping, he carried Amasa off the highway into a nearby field and covered him with a garment.
2 Chronicles 33:24
until his servants finally conspired against him and executed him in his own palace.
Proverbs 1:18
but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves.

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