Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Ingratitude » To man, instances of
is it little that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in a wilderness that thou also certainly makest thyself prince over us?
and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, 'Jehovah doth see, and require.'
Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.
And David said, 'Only, in vain I have kept all that this one hath in the wilderness, and nothing hath been looked after of all that he hath, and he turneth back to me evil for good;
and the chief of the butlers hath not remembered Joseph, but forgetteth him.
and ye have risen against the house of my father to-day, and slay his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and cause Abimelech son of his handmaid to reign over the masters of Shechem, because he is your brother --
neither have they done kindness with the house of Jerubbaal -- Gideon -- according to all the good which he did with Israel.
and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!
Ingratitude » Often exhibited » To benefactors
And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!
Ingratitude » Of man to man » Citizens
A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks; and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man! And I said, 'Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --
Prudence » Exemplified » The poor wise man
and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!
War » Requires
For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.
A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.
A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks; and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man! And I said, 'Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' -- read more.
The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools. Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!
The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools. Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!
'Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him? and if not so -- he being yet a long way off -- having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.