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
General references
Bible References
The bars of the pit
Job 18:13
They shall devour the protection of his skin; the firstborn of death shall devour his members.
Job 33:18
Thus he keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 88:4
I am counted with those that go down into the pit; I am as a man that has no strength:
Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD; my spirit fails; hide not thy face from me lest I be like those that go down into the grave.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to deliver my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Jonah 2:6
I descended to the roots of the mountains; the earth put her bars about me for ever; yet thou hast brought up my life out of the grave, 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 unto me, Son of man, all these bones are the house of Israel; behold, they say, Our bones have dried, and our hope is lost, and in ourselves we are totally cut off.
2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
General references
Isaiah 38:10
I said in the cutting off of my days; I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.