2 Samuel 23:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:

Cross References

Genesis 3:18

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

2 Samuel 20:1

Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

Song of Solomon 2:2

As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.

Isaiah 27:4

My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

Isaiah 33:12

And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.

Nahum 1:10

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

Deuteronomy 13:13

That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.

1 Samuel 25:17

So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.