Ecclesiastes 10:8
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8 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.(A)
Proverbs 26:27
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27 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.(A)
Psalm 7:15-16
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15 They make a pit, digging it out,
and fall into the hole that they have made.(A)
16 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
and on their own heads their violence descends.(B)
Amos 9:3
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3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
from there I will search out and take them;
and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.(A)
Amos 5:19
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19 as if someone fled from a lion
and was met by a bear
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall
and was bitten by a snake.(A)
Esther 7:10
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10 So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
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Psalm 9:15-16
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15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.(A)
16 The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah(B)
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 his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.(A)
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Judges 9:53-57
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53 But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.(A) 54 Immediately he called to the young man who carried his armor and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, so people will not say about me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So the young man thrust him through, and he died. 55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home. 56 Thus God repaid Abimelech for the crime he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;(B) 57 and God also made all the wickedness of the people of Shechem fall back on their heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.(C)
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Judges 9:5
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5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone, but Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, for he hid himself.(A)
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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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