2 Samuel 23:6

New International Version

But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.

Cross References

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.

Isaiah 33:12

The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”

Song of Solomon 2:2

Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse’s son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord.

Deuteronomy 13:13

that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known),

Genesis 3:18

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

Nahum 1:10

They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day God visits you has come, the day your watchmen sound the alarm. Now is the time of your confusion.