Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Strength

Bible References

Strength

Job 17:16
Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”
Jonah 2:6
“I descended to the roots of the mountains.
The earth with its bars was around me forever,
But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.

The firstborn

Genesis 49:3
“Reuben, you are my firstborn;
My might and the beginning of my strength,
Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
Isaiah 14:30
Those who are most helpless will eat,
And the needy will lie down in security;
I will destroy your root with famine,
And it will kill off your survivors.
Revelation 6:8
I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

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