Ecclesiastes 10:8
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Proverbs 26:27
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27 (A)Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.
Amos 5:19
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19 (A)as if a man fled from a lion,
and a bear met him,
or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall,
and a serpent bit him.
Esther 7:10
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10 (A)So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. (B)Then the wrath of the king abated.
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Judges 9:5
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5 And he went to his father's house at (A)Ophrah (B)and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
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Amos 9:3
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3 If they hide themselves on (A)the top of Carmel,
from there I will search them out and take them;
(B)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Psalm 9:15-16
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15 The nations have sunk in (A)the pit that they made;
in (B)the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has made himself (C)known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[a] Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 7:15-16
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15 He makes (A)a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His (B)mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
2 Samuel 18:15
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15 And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.
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2 Samuel 17:23
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23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to (A)his own city. He (B)set his house in order and (C)hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
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Judges 9:53-57
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53 (A)And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull. 54 (B)Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died. 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, everyone departed to his home. 56 (C)Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers. 57 And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came (D)the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
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