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
And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"
Daniel 5:23
but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk 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 know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
Acts 17:25
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
The breath
Job 27:3
as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
Job 34:14
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
Genesis 2:7
then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Genesis 6:17
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
Psalm 104:29
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Psalm 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of 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
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.