Job 17:16

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

Job 3:17-19

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

Jonah 2:6

at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

Job 18:13-14

It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

Job 33:18-28

he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

Psalm 88:4-8

I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

Isaiah 38:17-18

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast 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. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on 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
It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
Job 33:18
he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 88:4
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
Psalm 143:7
Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Jonah 2:6
at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

Rest

Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'
2 Corinthians 1:9
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

General references

Isaiah 38:10
I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

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