Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
The bars of the pit
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Bible References
The bars of the pit
Job 18:13
His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
Job 33:18
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
Psalm 88:4
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
Isaiah 38:17
See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
Rest
Job 3:17
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
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Isaiah 38:10
I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.