Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Sat down
He requested
Better
Bible References
Sat down
1 Kings 13:14
He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am."
Genesis 21:15
The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
John 4:6
Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
He requested
1 Kings 19:3
And he was afraid, and he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and do not let me see my wretchedness."
2 Kings 2:11
It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Job 3:20
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born: do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Better
Amos 6:2
Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?
Nahum 3:8
Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
Matthew 6:26
See the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much more value than they?
Romans 3:9
What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.