Snare

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningAmos 3:5
• FIGURATIVE
• Of the evils in life of wicked peopleJob 18:8–10
• Of the devices of evil people to deceive the righteousPsalms 91:3Jeremiah 5:26
• See Ambush
• See Conspiracy
• See Pit

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Job 18:8–10

   For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

   ›Commentary on Job 18:8–102 voices

   “For he is cast into a net - His own conduct will infallibly bring him to ruin. He shall be like a wild beast taken in a net; the more he flounces in order to extricate himself, the more he shall be entangled. He walketh upon a snare - He is continually walking on the meshes of a net, by which he must soon be entangled and overthrown.

   “God is preparing for his destruction. The sinner by his sin is preparing the fuel and then God by his wrath is preparing the fire. See here, (1.) How the sinner is infatuated, to run himself into the snare; and whom God will destroy he infatuates.

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2. Psalms 91:3

   Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 91:32 voices

   “. Ver 3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. Assuredly no subtle plot shall succeed against one who has the eyes of God watching for his defence, We are foolish and weak as poor little birds, and are very apt to be lured to our destruction by cunning foes, but if we dwell near to God, he will see to it that the most skilful deceiver shall not entrap us.

   “For he himself will free me from the snare of the hunters. There are many hunters in this world, who try to hunt down our soul. Indeed even that giant Nimrod was a great hunter in the sight of the Lord: and Esau was a hunter, because he was a sinner; and nowhere in the holy Scriptures do we find any holy hunter. Fishermen we find to be holy. For he himself will free me from the snare of the hunters.

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3. Jeremiah 5:26

   For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 5:262 voices

   “(Verse 26.) Because there were found among my people wicked ones plotting like bird catchers, setting snares and traps to capture men; like a net full of birds, so is their house full of deceit. Why did a temporary and late rain deviate from them, and all good things not come? The reasons are given: because there were found among his people wicked ones. He did not say, the unjust and sinners (as the new heresy wants), but the wicked. Impiety openly denies God; if it confesses error iniquity and sin, it easily turns God to mercy.

   “They lay wait, as he that setteth snares - A metaphor taken from fowlers, who, having fixed their nets, lie down and keep out of sight, that when birds come, they may be ready to draw and entangle them.

   Everything gathered on Jeremiah 5:26→

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4. Amos 3:5

   Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?

   ›Commentary on Amos 3:52 voices

   The foe corresponds to the "snare," suddenly springing from the ground and enclosing the bird on the latter touching it; the Hebrew is literally, "Shall the snare spring from the earth?" Israel entangled in judgments answers to the bird "taken."

   “Can a bird fall - So here for your sins, God will cast the net over you. Shall one take up a snare - The fowler will not take up the snare, before the prey be taken in it.

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