Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Forbear to cry
Make
Lips
Eat
The bread of men
General references
Bible References
Forbear to cry
Psalm 37:7
Be resigned to Yahweh, yea wait with longing for him; Burn not with vexation at him who prospereth in his way, - at the man who doeth wickedness.
Psalm 46:10
Let be! and know that, I, am God, I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Amos 8:3
but palace-songs, shall become howlings, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, - Many shall be the dead bodies in every place - cast forth - with a hush!
Habakkuk 2:20
Howbeit, Yahweh, is in his holy temple, - Hush before him, all the earth.
Make
Jeremiah 16:4
Of deaths from diseases, shall they die, They shall not be lamented, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall riley serve, - Yea by sword and by famine, shall they be consumed, And, their dead bodies shall become, food - To the bird of the heavens, and To the beast of the earth.
Bind
Ezekiel 24:23
And your chaplets shall be on your heads. And your sandals on your feet, Ye shall neither lament, nor weep,- Yet shall ye pine away in your iniquities, and shall groan one to another.
Leviticus 10:6
Then said Moses unto Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons - Your heads, ye may not bare and your garments, ye shall not rend so shall ye not die, neither against all the assembly, will he be wroth, - but let, your brethren the whole house of Israel, bewail the consuming fire wherewith Yahweh hath consumed.
Leviticus 21:10
And, as for the high priest from among his brethren upon whose head is poured the anointing oil, and who is installed, by putting on the garments, His head, shall he not bare, And, his garments, shall he not rend;
Cover
Ezekiel 24:22
Then shall ye do, as I have done. - The heard, shall ye not cover, And the bread of other men:, shall ye not eat;
Leviticus 13:45
Now, as for the leper in whom is the plague, His clothes, shall be rent, And, his head, shall be bare, And, his beard, shall he cover, - And, Unclean! Unclean! shall he cry.
Micah 3:7
And the men of vision, shall turn pale, and the diviners, shall blush, and shall put a covering upon their lip, all of them, - because there is no answer of God.
Lips
Ezekiel 24:22
Then shall ye do, as I have done. - The heard, shall ye not cover, And the bread of other men:, shall ye not eat;
Eat
Hosea 9:4
They shall not pour out to Yahweh - wine, neither shall they be pleasing to him, their sacrifices, are as the food of mourning to them, all that eat thereof, shall defile themselves, because, their food for their appetite, entereth not into the house of Yahweh.
The bread of men
Jeremiah 16:7
Neither shall they break bread to them in mourning To console one over his dead, - Nor cause them to drink the cup of consolation, Over ones father Or over ones mother;
General references
Ezekiel 24:22
Then shall ye do, as I have done. - The heard, shall ye not cover, And the bread of other men:, shall ye not eat;