Amos 5:19

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • 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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  • Eccl 10:8-9
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  • 1 Kgs 20:36-37
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    8 And 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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    17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

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    13 ¶ The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12 Like 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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    5 Deliver 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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    7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]:

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    5 He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

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

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    13 ¶ The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.

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

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