Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
I go whence
The land
The shadow
Bible References
I go whence
Job 7:8
The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
The land
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
The shadow
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither did they say, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'