Ecclesiastes 12:5

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:

The almond

Because

Hebrews 9:27

The mourners

Genesis 50:3

Jeremiah 9:17

Mark 5:38

General references

Genesis 23:19

Zechariah 1:5

Bible References

The almond

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; if some disaster should befall him by the way in which ye go, then shall ye bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol.

and if ye take this one also from me and some disaster should befall him, ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow down to Sheol.

Thou shalt rise up before grey hair and honour the face of the elder and fear thy God. I am the LORD.

Among us are also gray hairs; there are also aged men, much elder than thy father.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not until I have showed the strength of thy arm unto the next generation and thy power to every one that is to come,

Old age is a crown of glory if it is found in the way of righteousness.

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

And even to your old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you; I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will deliver you.

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

Because

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, where thou goest.

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

For I know that thou dost conduct me unto death and to the house appointed for all living.

For he sees that all the wise men die, likewise the fool and the ignorant perish and leave their wealth to others.

And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;

The mourners

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come,

And they came to the house of the prince of the synagogue and saw the tumult and those that wept and wailed greatly.

General references

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?