Job 17:16

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,
or will we descend together to the dust?

Job 3:17-19

There the wicked cease to make trouble,
and there the weary find rest.

Jonah 2:6

I sank to the foundations of the mountains;
the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!
But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!

Job 18:13-14

Parts of his skin are eaten away;
death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.

Job 33:18-28

God spares his soul from the Pit,
his life from crossing the river of death.

Psalm 88:4-8

I am counted among those going down to the Pit.
I am like a man without strength,

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, Lord;
my spirit fails.
Don’t hide Your face from me,
or I will be like those
going down to the Pit.

Isaiah 38:17-18

Indeed, it was for my own welfare
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

General references

Bible References

The bars of the pit

Job 18:13
Parts of his skin are eaten away;
death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.
Job 33:18
God spares his soul from the Pit,
his life from crossing the river of death.
Psalm 88:4
I am counted among those going down to the Pit.
I am like a man without strength,
Psalm 143:7
Answer me quickly, Lord;
my spirit fails.
Don’t hide Your face from me,
or I will be like those
going down to the Pit.
Isaiah 38:17
Indeed, it was for my own welfare
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.
Jonah 2:6
I sank to the foundations of the mountains;
the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!
But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!

Rest

Job 3:17
There the wicked cease to make trouble,
and there the weary find rest.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
2 Corinthians 1:9
Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

General references

Isaiah 38:10
I said: In the prime of my life
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.

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