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.

Bible References

Sat down

1 Kings 13:14
He followed the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”

“I am,” he said.
Genesis 21:15
When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
John 4:6
Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

He requested

1 Kings 19:3
Then Elijah became afraid and immediately ran for his life. When he came to Beer-sheba that belonged to Judah, he left his servant there,
Numbers 11:15
If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”
2 Kings 2:11
As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire with horses of fire suddenly appeared and separated the two of them. Then Elijah went up into heaven in the whirlwind.
Job 3:20
Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,
Jeremiah 20:14
May the day I was born
be cursed.
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.
Jonah 4:3
And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Philippians 1:21
For me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Better

Amos 6:2
Cross over to Calneh and see;
go from there to great Hamath;
then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are you better than these kingdoms?
Is their territory larger than yours?
Nahum 3:8
Are you better than Thebes
that sat along the Nile
with water surrounding her,
whose rampart was the sea,
the river her wall?
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
Romans 3:9
What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

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