Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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Bible References

Long

Numbers 11:15
If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”
1 Kings 19:4
but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”
Jonah 4:3
And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

Dig

Proverbs 2:4
if you seek it like silver
and search for it like hidden treasure,

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:2
So I admired the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive.

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