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
By the head, is understood the senator and honorable man, and by the tail, the Prophet that preacheth lies.
Isaiah 44:10
Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?
Jeremiah 23:32
Behold, here am I, sayeth the LORD, against those prophets that dare prophesy lies, and deceive my people with their vanities, and miracles, whom I never sent, nor commanded them. They shall do this people great harm, sayeth the LORD.
1 Corinthians 8:4
To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything?
That leaveth
John 10:12
An hired servant which is not the shepherd, neither the sheep are his own, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
The sword
Isaiah 6:9
And so he said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand; ye shall plainly see, and not perceive.
Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD shall give you a hard-sleeping spirit, and close your eyes. Your Prophets also, and heads which should see; them shall he cover.
Isaiah 42:19
But who is blinder, than my servant? Or so deaf, as my messengers, whom I send unto thee? For who is so blind as the perfect man, and so blind as the LORD's servant?
Jeremiah 50:35
The sword shall come upon the Chaldeans, sayeth the LORD; upon them that dwell in Babylon; upon their princes; and upon their wise men.
Hosea 4:5
Therefore stumblest thou in the daytime and the prophet with them in the night. I will bring thy mother to silence, and why?
Amos 8:9
At the same time," sayeth the LORD God, "I shall cause the sun to go down at noon, and the land to be dark in the clear day.
Micah 3:6
Therefore your vision shall be turned to night, and your prophesying to darkness. The Sun shall go down over those prophets, and the day shall be dark unto them.
John 9:39
Jesus said, "I am come unto judgment, into this world: that they which see not, might see, and they which see might be made blind."
John 12:40
"He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts: that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted and I should heal them."
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel hath not obtained that that he sought. No but yet the election hath obtained it. The remnant are blinded,
His arm
1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, the days will come that I will cut off thine arm and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an elder in thine house.
1 Kings 13:4
And when the king heard the saying of the man of God which he cried against the altar in Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar saying, "Hold him." And his hand, which he put forth toward him, dried up that he could not pull it in again to him;
Ezekiel 30:22
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will upon Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and bruise his strong arm - yet is it but a broken one - and will smite the sword out of his hand.