2 Samuel 23:6
New King James Version
6 But the sons of rebellion shall all be as thorns thrust away,
Because they cannot be taken with hands.
2 Samuel 23:7
New King James Version
7 But the man who touches them
Must be [a]armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,
And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 23:7 Lit. filled
Isaiah 9:18
New King James Version
18 For wickedness (A)burns as the fire;
It shall devour the briers and thorns,
And kindle in the thickets of the forest;
They shall mount up like rising smoke.
Jeremiah 6:28
New King James Version
28 (A)They are all stubborn rebels, (B)walking as slanderers.
They are (C)bronze and iron,
They are all corrupters;
Ezekiel 28:24
New King James Version
24 “And there shall no longer be a pricking brier or (A)a painful thorn for the house of Israel from among all who are around them, who (B)despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God.”
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Micah 7:4
New King James Version
4 The best of them is (A)like a brier;
The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge;
The day of your watchman and your punishment comes;
Now shall be their perplexity.
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