Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Bible References

I shall die

Psalm 30:6
Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I will never be moved.”
Jeremiah 22:23
“You who dwell in Lebanon,
Nested in the cedars,
How you will groan when pangs come upon you,
Pain like a woman in childbirth!
Jeremiah 49:16
“As for the terror of you,
The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of the rock,
Who occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” declares the Lord.
Obadiah 1:4
“Though you build high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:9
“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house
To put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

Multiply

Job 5:26
“You will come to the grave in full vigor,
Like the stacking of grain in its season.
Job 42:16
After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.
Psalm 91:16
“With a long life I will satisfy him
And let him see My salvation.”

As the sand

Genesis 32:12
For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”
Genesis 41:49
Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.