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
And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong.
Jeremiah 22:23
thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child?
Jeremiah 49:16
Thy high stomach and the pride of thy heart have deceived thee; Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the high mountains in possession. Nevertheless, though thy nest were as high as the Eagles, yet will I cast thee down, sayeth the LORD.
Obadiah 1:4
But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.

Multiply

Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.
Job 42:16
After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.
Psalm 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

As the sand

Genesis 32:12
Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude."
Genesis 41:49
And Joseph laid up corn in store, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, until he left numbering: For it was without number.