Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

Bible References

They die

Job 15:32

“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,
And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].
Job 21:23

“One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and quiet and satisfied;
Job 22:16

Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?
Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord killed him [in judgment].
Leviticus 10:1
Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective [ceremonial] censers, put fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange (unauthorized, unacceptable) fire before the Lord, [an act] which He had not commanded them to do.
Psalm 55:23

But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;
Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.
But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

Unclean

Genesis 19:5
and they called out to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them [intimately].”
Deuteronomy 23:17
“There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel.