Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

General references

Bible References

The almond

Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
Genesis 44:29
If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
Leviticus 19:32
You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.
Job 15:10
“Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
Older than your father.
Psalm 71:18
And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.
Proverbs 16:31
A gray head is a crown of glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 20:29
The glory of young men is their strength,
And the honor of old men is their gray hair.
Isaiah 46:4
Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.
Jeremiah 1:11
The word of the Lord came to me saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “I see a rod of an almond tree.”

Because

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
Job 17:13
“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;
Job 30:23
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.
Psalm 49:10
For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.
Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

The mourners

Genesis 50:3
Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!
Mark 5:38
They *came to the house of the synagogue official; and He *saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing.

General references

Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Zechariah 1:5
“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?