Thematic Bible: Snares


Thematic Bible



The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows. The mouth of the foolish is destruction to him, and his lips the snare of his soul.

And a messenger of Jehovah will go up from Gilgal to Bochim, and he will say, I will bring you up out of Egypt, and I will bring you in to the land which I sware to your fathers; and he said I will not break my covenant with you forever. And ye shall not cut out a covenant to the inhabitants of this land.; their altars ye shall break down: and ye heard not to my voice: why did ye this? And I also said, I will not drive them out from your face; and they were to you for adversaries, and their gods shall be to you for a snare.

And they will mingle with the nations, and they will learn their works. And they will serve their images, and they will be for a snare to them.

And thou didst consume all the peoples which Jehovah thy God gave to thee; thine eye shall not have pity upon them, and thou shalt not serve their gods, for it is a snare to thee. Verse ConceptsTrapEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other godsShow No Mercypity

And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee. Thou shalt not make a covenant with them and to their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they shall cause thee to sin against me: if thou shalt serve their gods, surely shall it be to thee for a snare.

Watch to thyself what I command thee this day: behold me driving out from before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Watch to thyself lest thou shalt make a covenant with those dwelling in the land which thou goest upon it, lest it shall be for a snare in the midst of thee.

And watch greatly for your souls, to love Jehovah your God. For if turning back, ye shall turn back and cleave to the remainder of these nations, these being left with you, and marry with them, and go in to them, and they in to you, Knowing, ye shall know that Jehovah your God will not add to drive out these nations from before you: and they, were to you for a snare and for a noose, and for a scourge in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till your destruction from this good land which Jehovah your God gave to you.


And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her. Verse ConceptsSexual ChastityWomen Doing WrongMan TrappingGodly WomanBitternessBreaking Chainsnagging

Thou shalt not be companion of the possessor of anger, and with the man of wrath thou shalt not go: Lest thou shalt learn his ways and take a snare to thy soul.


And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence. Verse ConceptsTrapSin, Consequences OfKnowing That There Is A GodPsalm Interjections

In the transgression of the lips is the snare of evil: and the just one shall come forth out of straits. Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsTrapSin, Consequences OfSpeaking, Evil

And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her. Verse ConceptsSexual ChastityWomen Doing WrongMan TrappingGodly WomanBitternessBreaking Chainsnagging

A man making smooth against his neighbor spreads a net for his steps. In the transgression of an evil man is a snare: and the just one shall rejoice and be glad:

for evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take men. As a cane full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: for this they were magnified and they will be rich. They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.

Thorns, snares, in the way of the perverse one: he watching his soul shall be far from them. Verse ConceptsThornsEvil AssociationsGod TrappingPitfalls

Also the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine; The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him. The steps of his strength shall be straightened, and his counsel shall cast him down. read more.
For he was cast into a net by his feet, and he will go about upon latticework. A snare shall lay hold upon the heel, the noose shall hold fast upon him. His gin being hid in the earth, and his snare upon the beaten path.

For Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations where thou goest in there to possess them, from before thee, and thou shalt inherit them, and thou shalt dwell in their land. Watch to thyself lest thou shalt be snared after them after their being destroyed from before thee; and lest thou shalt seek to their gods, saying, How shall these nations serve their gods? and so will I do also.

And Moab was destroyed from a people, for he was magnified against Jehovah. Fear, and the pit and the snare upon thee, thou inhabiting Moab, says Jehovah.


Men of derision will kindle up a city: and the wise will turn away anger. Verse ConceptsMockeryRidicule, Nature OfScoffersWorldly Snaresmockers

Mine eyes are always to Jehovah, for he will bring forth my feet from the net Verse ConceptsNetsWatchfulness, Of BelieversConcentrationDeliberationPlucking OutEscaping The TrapFocuslonliness