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
Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?"
Daniel 5:23
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone -- gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
Acts 17:25
nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
The breath
Job 27:3
for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
Job 34:14
If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
Genesis 2:7
The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 6:17
I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
Psalm 104:29
When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life's breath, they die and return to dust.
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!
Mankind
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
General references
Genesis 1:25
God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.