Amos 5:19

King James Version 1611 (Original)

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
  • Jer 15:2-3 : 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
  • Jer 48:43-44 : 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
  • Amos 9:1-2 : 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30 : 29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
  • Job 20:24-25 : 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

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  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

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  • Eccl 10:8-9
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    8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

    9Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

  • Prov 17:12
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    12Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36-37
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    36Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

    37Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.

  • Isa 11:8
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    8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

  • Ezek 19:5-6
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    5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

    6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

  • Prov 22:13
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    13The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

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    15As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

  • Job 12:5
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    5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

  • Prov 26:13
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    13The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    24And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

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    26And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

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    11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

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    15If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

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    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

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    6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

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    11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

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    4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

  • Deut 19:5
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    5As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

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    16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

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    5And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

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