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
and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under the oak and said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I [am]."
Genesis 21:15
And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes.
John 4:6
And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, [because he] had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

He requested

1 Kings 19:3
Then he became afraid, got up, and {fled for his life}. He came [to] Beersheba which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there.
Numbers 11:15
If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."
2 Kings 2:11
Then they [were] walking, talking as they went. Suddenly a fiery chariot with horses of fire [appeared] and separated between the two of them. Elijah went up in the storm [to] the heavens
Job 3:20
"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,
Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be [the] day [on] which I was born, let not the day [on] which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
Jonah 4:3
And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"
Philippians 1:21
For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.

Better

Amos 6:2
Cross over [to] Calneh and see, and go from there [to] Hamath Rabbah and go down [to] Gath of the Philistines. [Are] you better than these kingdoms, or is their territory greater than your territory?
Nahum 3:8
Are you better than Thebes? She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters, her rampart [was the] sea and water [was] her wall.
Matthew 6:26
Consider the birds of the sky, that they do not sow or reap or gather [produce] into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they [are]?
Romans 3:9
What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,