Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Whose hand
The breath
Mankind
General references
Bible References
Whose hand
Numbers 16:22
But they fell on their faces [before the Lord], 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
And you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of His house have been brought 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 or hear or understand. But the God who holds in His hand your breath of life and your ways you have not honored and glorified [but have dishonored and defied].
Acts 17:25
nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, because it is He who gives to all [people] life and breath and all things.
The breath
Job 27:3
As long as my life is within me,
And the breath of God is [still] in my nostrils,
As long as my life is within me,
And the breath of God is [still] in my nostrils,
Job 34:14
“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,
“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,
Genesis 2:7
then the Lord God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].
Genesis 6:17
For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.
Psalm 104:29
You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their breath, they die
And return to their dust.
You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their breath, they die
And return to their dust.
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation (help).
Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation (help).
Mankind
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
General references
Genesis 1:25
So God made the wild animals of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps and crawls on the earth according to its kind; and God saw that it was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it.