Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Bible References

Death

Jeremiah 20:14
Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
1 Kings 19:4
and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!"
Job 3:20
"Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person:
Job 7:15
I would rather die by strangulation than continue living.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore, LORD, please kill me, because it's better for me to die than to live!"
Revelation 6:16
They told the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb.
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death, but never find it. They will long to die, but death will escape them.

In all

Jeremiah 23:3
"I'll gather the remnant of my flock from all the countries where I've driven them, and bring them back to their pasture where they'll be fruitful and increase in numbers.
Jeremiah 29:14
I'll be found by you,' declares the LORD, "and I'll restore your security and gather you from all the nations and all the places to which I've driven you,' declares the LORD. "I'll bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.'
Jeremiah 32:36
"Now therefore," says the LORD God of Israel, "concerning this city about which you are saying, "It is being given into the control of the king of Babylon by sword, famine, and plague,'
Jeremiah 40:12
So all the Judeans returned from all the countries where they had been scattered. They came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit in great abundance.
Deuteronomy 30:1
"When all these things happen to you both the blessings and the curses that I've presented to you and you take them seriously in all the nations where the LORD your God will deport you,
Daniel 9:7
"To you, Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us, open humiliation even to this day, to the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, both those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the lands to which you drove them because of their unfaithful acts that they committed against you.

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