Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
The firstborn
Bible References
Strength
Job 17:16
To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
Jonah 2:6
To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.
The firstborn
Genesis 49:3
Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength;
Isaiah 14:30
And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.
Revelation 6:8
and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him -- his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.