From Nave’s Topical Bible
Pit
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 19Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Benaiah kills a lion in2 Samuel 23:20
- FIGURATIVEPsalms 7:15Psalms 7:16Psalms 40:2Psalms 57:6Psalms 69:15Psalms 119:85Proverbs 23:27Proverbs 26:27Proverbs 28:10Ecclesiastes 10:8Jeremiah 48:44
- The bottomless pitRevelation 9:1Revelation 9:2Revelation 9:11Revelation 11:7Revelation 17:8Revelation 20:1Revelation 20:3
The passages, in Bible order (19)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- 2 Samuel 23:20
And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 23:201 voice
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel,.... A city in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:21; the father of this man was a man of great vivacity, valour, and strength, so that it was like father like son.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 7:15
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Commentary on Psalms 7:152 voices
We do not find the name of "pit" ever assigned in the divine Scriptures in the case of something good or a "well" of water in the case of something bad. As to the reason for the pits being assigned among the worse things and the wells among the better, we think it is this.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 11:8 (PS 7)Patristic
He made a pit and digged it,.... That is, he digged a pit, and made it very large and capacious, to answer his purposes; and is fallen into the ditch which he made; so it is said of the Heathen, Psa 9:15; and is exemplified in the case of Haman, who was hanged upon the gallows he had built for Mordecai.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 7:16
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
Commentary on Psalms 7:162 voices
His mischief shall return upon his own head,.... That which he conceived and devised in his mind, and attempted to bring upon others, shall fall upon himself, as a just judgment from heaven upon him; and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate; referring to the violence with which Saul pursued David, which would be requited to him, and of which he prophesied, 1Sa 26:10.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Shall come down upon his own pate - Upon his scalp, קדקד kodkod, the top of the head. It may refer to knocking the criminal on the head, in order to deprive him of life. Had scalping been known in those days, I should have thought the reference might be to that barbarous custom.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Psalms 40:2
He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
Commentary on Psalms 40:21 voice
Christ has heard the prayer of his own servants and has brought us out from the pit of misery and from the mire of dregs. We were drowning there; our whole flesh was clinging to the mire, trapped in the whirlpool of our sins. Our soul was powerless to save itself; fallen and ruined as it was by the multiplicity and dreadfulness of our offenses. Thanks be to the Lord Jesus, God's only Son, who came down from heaven to forgive us our sins.
Ambrose of Milan· Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic PsalmsPatristic
- Psalms 57:6
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
Commentary on Psalms 57:61 voice
They have prepared a net for my steps,.... They laid snares for him, as the fowler does for the bird, in order to take him.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 69:15
Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
- Psalms 119:85
The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
- Proverbs 23:27
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Commentary on Proverbs 23:271 voice
For a whore is a deep ditch,.... Or, "as a deep ditch", so Aben Ezra; to which she may be compared for the filthiness of her whoredoms, and for her insatiable lust, as well as for her being never satisfied with what she receives from her lovers. Plautus compares (g) her to the sea, which devours whatever you give, and yet nothing appears; and another (h) calls a whore Charybdis, from her swallowing up and devouring all a man has.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 26:27
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
Commentary on Proverbs 26:271 voice
Rolleth a stone - The illustration refers, probably, to the use made of stones in the rough warfare of an earlier age. Compare Jdg 9:53; 2Sa 11:21. The man is supposed to be rolling the stone up to the heights.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Proverbs 28:10
He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 10:81 voice
Whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him - While spoiling his neighbor’s property, he himself may come to greater mischief: while pulling out the sticks, he may be bit by a serpent, who has his nest there. Some have supposed that נחש nachash here means a thorn; perhaps from the similarity of its prick to the serpent’s sting. He who forces his way through a hedge will be pricked by the thorns.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Jeremiah 48:44
“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
- Revelation 9:1
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
Commentary on Revelation 9:11 voice
And the fifth angel sounded - See the notes on Rev 8:6-7. And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth - This denotes, as was shown in the notes on Rev 8:10, a leader, a military chieftain, a warrior. In the fulfillment of this, as in the former case, we look for the appearance of some mighty prince and warrior, to whom is given power, as it were, to open the bottomless pit, and to summon forth its legions.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Revelation 9:2
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
Commentary on Revelation 9:21 voice
He opened the bottomless pit - Το φρεαρ της αβυσσου· The pit of the bottomless deep. Some think the angel means Satan, and the bottomless pit hell. Some suppose Mohammed is meant; and Signior Pastorini professes to believe that Luther is intended! There arose a smoke - False doctrine, obscuring the true light of heaven.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Revelation 9:11
They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.
Commentary on Revelation 9:112 voices
["As king they have over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is 'Armageddon,' whose name in Greek is 'Apollion,' and whose name in Latin is 'Exterminans.' "] Although God is supremely good, by hidden yet just judgments he nevertheless allows …
Primasius of Hadrumetum· COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 9:11Patristic
And they had a king over them - A ruler who marshalled their hosts. Locusts often, and indeed generally, move in bands, though they do not appear to be under the direction of anyone as a particular ruler or guide. In this case it struck John as a remarkable peculiarity that they had a king - a king who, it would seem, had the absolute control, and to whom was to be traced all the destruction which would ensue from their emerging from the bottomless pit.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Revelation 11:7
When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
Commentary on Revelation 11:71 voice
And when they shall have finished their testimony - Prof. Stuart renders this, “And whenever they shall have finished their testimony.” The reference is undoubtedly to a period when they should have faithfully borne the testimony which they were appointed to bear. The word rendered here “shall have finished” - τελέσωσιν telesōsin, from τελέω teleō means properly to end, to finish, to complete, to accomplish.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical