2 Samuel 23:6

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But wicked, godless, and worthless lives are all like thorns to be thrust away, because they cannot be taken with the hand.

Cross References

Genesis 3:18

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

2 Samuel 20:1

THERE HAPPENED to be there a base and contemptible fellow named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite. He blew a trumpet and said, We have no portion in David and no inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to his tents, O Israel!

Song of Solomon 2:2

But Solomon replied, Like the lily among thorns, so are you, my love, among the daughters.

Isaiah 27:4

Wrath is not in Me. Would that the briers and thorns [the wicked internal foe] were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together.

Isaiah 33:12

And the people will be burned as if to lime, like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words; though briers and thorns are all around you and you dwell and sit among scorpions, be not afraid of their words nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier; the most upright or the straightest is like a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even of [God's] judgment and your punishment, has come; now shall be their perplexity and confusion.

Nahum 1:10

For [the Ninevites] are as bundles of thorn branches [for fuel], and even while drowned in their drunken [carousing] they shall be consumed like stubble fully dry [in the day of the Lord's wrath]. [Mal. 4:1.]

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all causes of offense [persons by whom others are drawn into error or sin] and all who do iniquity and act wickedly,

Deuteronomy 13:13

That certain base fellows have gone out from your midst and have enticed away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods–gods you have not known–

1 Samuel 2:12

The sons of Eli were base and worthless; they did not know or regard the Lord.

1 Samuel 25:17

So know this and consider what you will do, for evil is determined against our master and all his house. For he is such a wicked man that one cannot speak to him.