Ecclesiastes 10:8
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8 (A)He who digs a pit will fall into it,
And whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.
Proverbs 26:27
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27 (A)Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
Amos 5:19
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19 It will be (A)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
Esther 7:10
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10 So (A)they (B)hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.
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Judges 9:5
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5 Then he went to his father’s house (A)at Ophrah and (B)killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, because he hid himself.
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Amos 9:3
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3 And though they (A)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
Psalm 9:15-16
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15 (A)The [a]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
16 The Lord is (B)known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
(C)Meditation.[b] Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 9:15 Gentiles
- Psalm 9:16 Heb. Higgaion
Psalm 7:15-16
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15 He made a pit and dug it out,
(A)And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 (B)His trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent dealing shall come down on [a]his own crown.
Footnotes
- Psalm 7:16 The crown of his own head
2 Samuel 18:15
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15 And ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, and struck and killed him.
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2 Samuel 17:23
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23 Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to (A)his house, to his city. Then he [a]put his (B)household in order, and (C)hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father’s tomb.
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- 2 Samuel 17:23 Lit. gave charge concerning his house
Judges 9:53-57
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53 But a certain woman (A)dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull. 54 Then (B)he called quickly to the young man, his armorbearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So his young man thrust him through, and he died. 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, every man to his [a]place.
56 (C)Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers. 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came (D)the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
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- Judges 9:55 home
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