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
So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”
Revelation 9:6
And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

Dig

Proverbs 2:4
If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:2
So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

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