Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Mankind

General references

Bible References

Whose hand

Numbers 16:22
But they fell on their faces and said, “O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation?”
Daniel 5:23
but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.
Acts 17:25
nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

The breath

Job 27:3
For as long as life is in me,
And the breath of God is in my nostrils,
Job 34:14
“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Genesis 6:17
Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
Psalm 104:29
You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

Mankind

John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

General references

Genesis 1:25
God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.