Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
And the servant
General references
Bible References
The small
Job 30:23
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Psalm 49:2
High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
Luke 16:22
And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
Hebrews 9:27
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
And the servant
Psalm 49:14
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
General references
Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.