Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Bible References

The grave

Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
Psalm 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Psalm 88:11
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
Psalm 115:17
The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

They that

Numbers 16:33
So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:46
And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
Luke 16:26
And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.

General references

Psalm 67:3
Let the peoples praise thee, O God; Let all the peoples praise thee.
Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

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