2Sa 23:6-7, Isa 9:18, 27:4, 37:36 | ESV | STEP | But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away , for they cannot be taken with the hand ;

e ch. 17:14; 30:31; 31:8; [ch. 10:33; 14:25; 29:5]

2 Samuel 23:6-7

6 But worthless men ^{▼▼Hebrew worthlessness} are all like thorns that are thrown away,
for they cannot be taken with the hand;
7 but the man who touches them
arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,
and they are utterly consumed with fire.” ^{▼▼Hebrew consumed with fire in the sitting}

Isaiah 9:18

18 For wickedness burns like ^ca fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 27:4

4 I have no wrath.
^dWould that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.

Isaiah 37:36

36 ^eAnd the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.