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
"He went down and struck the lion in the middle of the cistern." [2 Samuel 23:20] As it is said of Benaiah: And he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the cistern on a snowy day (Book VII, Antiquities, ch. 12), …
Bede· Questions on the Book of Kings #10, 735Patristic
- 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 7:151 voice
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), 379Patristic
- Psalms 7:16
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
Commentary on Psalms 7:161 voice
'His sorrow shall be turned upon his own head, and his iniquity shall come down upon his own crown.' Just as if someone throws a stone on high, and is not careful, and the stone comes down upon his head, he is wounded by his own wound; so too the devil is slain by his own pride, he exalts himself and falls in ruin. 'His sorrow shall be turned upon his own head.' The devil now wishes to lift up his head, but cannot. Why can he not lift up his head?
Jerome· Homily 3, on Psalm 7, 420Patristic
- 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 Psalms, 397Patristic
- 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.
Commentary on Psalms 69:151 voice
For this reason, the unquenchable fire there will have to burn whatever healing penance and a salutary conversion of life here has failed to cure. The burning pit of hell will be open, and to it there will be a descent but no means of …
Caesarius of Arles· SERMON 167:5, 542Patristic
- Psalms 119:85
The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
Commentary on Psalms 119:851 voice
The proud have digged pits for me,.... Laid snares and temptations in his way, to draw him into sin, and so into mischief; they sought indeed to take away his life, and formed schemes for it.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein,.... That devises mischief against others, it shall come upon himself.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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
The Jews in their imaginings, and in their agreeing to act unjustly against the Lord, forgot that they were bringing wrath upon themselves. Therefore does the Word lament for them saying, "Why do the people exalt themselves, and the nations imagine vain things?" For vain indeed was the imagination of the Jews, meditating death against the Life, and devising unreasonable things against the Word of the Father.
Athanasius of Alexandria· FESTAL LETTERS 11:5, 373Patristic
- 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.
Commentary on Jeremiah 48:441 voice
He that fleeth from the fear,.... From terrible enemies he is afraid of, and dares not face them, but flees, in order to escape them: shall fall into the pit; into some misfortune or another: and he that getteth out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; laid by the enemy for him, and so shall fall into his hands.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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
Of the idols which the Gentiles think to be gods. In the Wisdom of Solomon: "All the idols of the nations they counted gods, which neither have the use of their eyes for seeing, nor their nostrils to receive breath, nor their ears for hearing, nor the fingers on their hands for handling; but their feet also are slow to walk. For man made them; and he who has borrowed his breath, he fashioned them. But no man will be able to fashion a god like to himself.
Cyprian· Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, 258Patristic
- 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
And the smoke of the pit arose, like the smoke of a great furnace, etc. Proclaiming the great furnace, that is, the final persecution, the heretical madness rages, not only attempting to obscure the light of the weaker ones, who, like the air, touch the …
Bede· Commentary on Revelation, 735Patristic
- 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 9:111 voice
["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 9:11, 560Patristic
- 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
But the sun now shone out a little, and, lo! I see a mighty beast like a whale, and out of its mouth fiery locusts proceeded. But the size of that beast was about a hundred feet, and it had a head like an urn. I began to weep, and to call on the Lord to rescue me from it. Then I remembered the word which I had heard, "Doubt not, O Hermas." Clothed, therefore, my brethren, with faith in the Lord and remembering the great things which He had taught me, I boldly faced the beast.
Shepherd of Hermas· Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4, 160Patristic