Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

That leaveth

Bible References

Idol

Isaiah 9:15
Elders and {the respectable} [are] the head, and prophets who teach lies [are] the tail.
Isaiah 44:10
Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?
Jeremiah 23:32
Look, I [am] against those who prophesy dreams of lies," {declares} Yahweh, "and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all," {declares} Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol [is] nothing in the world" and that "[there is] no God except one."
1 Corinthians 10:19
Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

That leaveth

John 10:12
The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--

The sword

Isaiah 6:9
And he said, "Go and say to this people, 'Keep on listening and do not comprehend! And keep on looking and do not understand!'
Isaiah 29:10
For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and he has covered your heads, the seers.
Isaiah 42:19
Who [is] blind but my servant or deaf like my messenger [whom] I sent? Who [is] blind like the one who is repaid or blind like the servant of Yahweh?
Jeremiah 50:35
A sword against [the] Chaldeans," {declares} Yahweh, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men.
Hosea 4:5
You will stumble [by] day, and the priest also will stumble with you at night. And I will destroy your mother;
Amos 8:9
And then in that day," {declares} my Lord Yahweh, "I will make the sun go down at noon and I will darken the land on a day of light.
Micah 3:6
Therefore [it will be as] night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. And the sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.
John 9:39
And Jesus said,]] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!"
John 12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with [their] eyes and understand with [their] hearts and turn, and I heal them."
Romans 11:7
What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened,

His arm

1 Samuel 2:31
Look, days [are] coming when I will cut off your {strength} and the {strength} of the house of your ancestor {so that no one in your house will live to old age}.
1 Kings 13:4
It happened at the moment the king heard the word of the man of God that he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" But his hand which he stretched out to him was paralyzed, and he was not able to draw it back to himself.
Ezekiel 30:22
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I [am] against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his strong arm and the broken [arm], and I will let the sword fall from his hand.