Ecclesiastes 10:8 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:8

8: When you dig a well, you may fall in. When you demolish an old wall, you could be bitten by a snake.

Proverbs 26:27

  1. If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will roll back and crush you.

Amos 5:19

  1. In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion--only to meet a bear. After escaping the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house--and is bitten by a snake.

Esther 7:10

  1. So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had set up for Mordecai, and the king's anger was pacified.

Psalms 7:15

  1. They dig a pit to trap others and then fall into it themselves.
  2. They make trouble, but it backfires on them. They plan violence for others, but it falls on their own heads.

Judges 9:5

  1. He took the soldiers to his father's home at Ophrah, and there, on one stone, they killed all seventy of his half brothers. But the youngest brother, Jotham, escaped and hid.

Amos 9:3

  1. Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel, I will search them out and capture them. Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean, I will send the great sea serpent after them to bite and destroy them.

2 Samuel 17:23

  1. Meanwhile, Ahithophel was publicly disgraced when Absalom refused his advice. So he saddled his donkey, went to his hometown, set his affairs in order, and hanged himself. He died there and was buried beside his father.

2 Samuel 18:15

  1. Ten of Joab's young armor bearers then surrounded Absalom and killed him.

Psalms 9:15

  1. The nations have fallen into the pit they dug for others. They have been caught in their own trap.
  2. The LORD is known for his justice. The wicked have trapped themselves in their own snares.

Judges 9:53

  1. a woman on the roof threw down a millstone that landed on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.
  2. He said to his young armor bearer, "Draw your sword and kill me! Don't let it be said that a woman killed Abimelech!" So the young man stabbed him with his sword, and he died.
  3. When Abimelech's men saw that he was dead, they disbanded and returned to their homes.
  4. Thus, God punished Abimelech for the evil he had done against his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
  5. God also punished the men of Shechem for all their evil. So the curse of Jotham son of Gideon came true.
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