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 will say, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother died, and he alone was left: and harm meeting him in the way in which ye shall go, and ye bring down my old age with grief to hades.

And took ye this also from my face, and harm befell him, and ye brought down my old age with evil to hades.

From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.

Also the gray headed and old man with us, great of days above thy fathers.

And also even to old age and grayness, O God, thou wilt not forsake me; till I shall announce thine arm to the generation, thy strength to every one who shall come:

Old age a crown of glorying, shall be found in the way of justice.

The glory of young men their strength: and the ornament of old men gray hair.

find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I will deliver.

And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, What seem thou, Jeremiah? and saying, I see the shoot of an almond tree.

Because

All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.

If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed.

For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.

For he shall see the wise shall die: together the fool and the stupid one shall perish, and they left their wealth to others.

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:

The mourners

And they will fill up forty days for him: for so will they fill up the days of the embalmed: and the Egyptians will weep for him seventy days.

Thus said Jehovah of armies, Give heed, and call ye for the wailing women, and they shall come forth; and send ye to the wise women, and they shall come forth.

And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees an uproar, they weeping and wailing much.

General references

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before the face of Mamra: this is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live forever?