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
The sword
His arm
Bible References
Idol
Isaiah 9:15
The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah 44:10
Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing?
Jeremiah 23:32
Jehovah says, Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams and tell them, and cause My people to go astray by their lies and by their lightness. Yet I did not send them nor command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?
That leaveth
John 10:12
But he who is a hireling and not the shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
The sword
Isaiah 6:9
And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.
Isaiah 29:10
For Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes; He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers.
Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and blind as Jehovah's servant?
Jeremiah 50:35
A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers, and on her wise men.
Hosea 4:5
And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night, and I will cut off your mother.
Amos 8:9
And it shall be in that day, says the Lord Jehovah, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the light of day.
Micah 3:6
Therefore a night shall be to you without vision; and darkness without divining. And the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
John 9:39
And Jesus said, I have come into this world for judgment, that they who do not see might see, and that they who see might be made blind.
John 12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened
His arm
1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, the days come when I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father's house, so that no old man shall be in your house.
1 Kings 13:4
And it happened when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God who had cried against the altar in Bethel, he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him! And his hand, which he put forth against him withered up so that he could not pull it in again to himself.
Ezekiel 30:22
So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong one and the broken one. And I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.